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ISN
2000
Springer
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A Mobile Agent Brokering Environment for the Future Open
The growth of commercial activities across networks has led to the network itself becoming a competitive marketplace with a multitude of vendors, operators and customers. In such a...
David Chieng, Ivan Ho, Alan Marshall, Gerard Parr
ISN
2000
Springer
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Providing Customisable Network Management Services Through Mobile Agents
Telecommunications network management has attracted a lot of attention in terms of research and standardisation in the last decade. TMN and TINA architectural frameworks try to add...
David Griffin, George Pavlou, Panos Georgatsos
ESAW
2000
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Combining Software Components and Mobile Agents
We present a first approach that combines the mobile agent and the compositional paradigms into a new agent-based compositional model. The aim of this work is to explore the capabi...
Mercedes Amor, Mónica Pinto, Lidia Fuentes,...
DEXAW
2000
IEEE
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A Flexible Mobile-Agent Framework for Accessing Information Systems in Disconnected Computing Environments
Over the last few years, the importance of mobile computing as been steadily increasing. While it is important to provide support for accessing databases in disconnected computing...
Paulo Marques, Luís Moura Silva, Joã...
AGENTS
2000
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
A game-theoretic formulation of multi-agent resource allocation
This paper considers resource allocation in a network with mobile agents competing for computational priority. We formulate this problem as a multi-agent game with the players bei...
Jonathan Bredin, Rajiv T. Maheswaran, Çagri...
ATAL
2003
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
A configurable mobile agent data protection protocol
This paper addresses the problem of protecting the data carried by mobile agents from the possible attacks of malicious execution hosts. Specifically, we consider protection mecha...
Paolo Maggi, Riccardo Sisto
ACSAC
2001
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Determining Privileges of Mobile Agents
This paper describes a method for controlling the behavior of mobile agent-system entities through the allocation of privileges. Privileges refer to policy rules that govern the a...
Wayne A. Jansen
DASC
2006
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Runtime Security Verification for Itinerary-Driven Mobile Agents
We present a new approach to ensure the secure execution of itinerary-driven mobile agents, in which the specification of the navigational behavior of an agent is separated from t...
Zijiang Yang, Shiyong Lu, Ping Yang
ATAL
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
A service-oriented language for programming mobile agents
In this paper we present Mob, a service-oriented scripting language for programming mobile agents in distributed systems. The main feature of the language is the integration of th...
Hervé Paulino, Luís M. B. Lopes
ATAL
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Performance analysis of untraceability protocols for mobile agents using an adaptable framework
Recently we had proposed two untraceability protocols for mobile agents and began investigating their quality. We believe that quality evaluation of security protocols should exte...
Rafal Leszczyna, Janusz Górski