Mobile Agents 5th International Conference, MA 2001 Atlanta, GA, USA, December 2-4, 2001 Proceedings /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Picco, Gian P. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2001.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2001.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2240
• Subjects: Computer hardware.; Artificial intelligence.; Computer communication systems.; Computer programming.; Software engineering.; Operating systems (Computers).; Computer Hardware.; Artificial Intelligence.; Computer Communication Networks.; Programming Techniques.; Software Engineering.; Operating Systems.

Recent years have witnessed the appearance of new paradigms for designing distributed applications where the application components can be relocated - namically across the hosts of the network. This form of code mobility lays the foundation for a new generation of technologies, architectures, models...

Table of Contents:

• Security
• On the Robustness of Some Cryptographic Protocols for Mobile Agent Protection
• Trust Relationships in a Mobile Agent System
• Evaluating the Security of Three Java-Based Mobile Agent Systems
• Models and Architectures
• Formal Specification and Verification of Mobile Agent Data Integrity Properties: A Case Study
• Lime Revisited
• Dynamic Adaptation of Mobile Agents in Heterogenous Environments
• Applications
• Fast File Access for Fast Agents
• Flying Emulator: Rapid Building and Testing of Networked Applications for Mobile Computers
• Crawlets: Agents for High Performance Web Search Engines
• Communication
• An Efficient Mailbox-Based Algorithm for Message Delivery in Mobile Agent Systems
• Using Predicates for Specifying Targets of Migration and Messages in a Peer-to-Peer Mobile Agent Environment
• A Scalable and Secure Global Tracking Service for Mobile Agents
• Run-Time Support
• Translating Strong Mobility into Weak Mobility
• Transparent Migration of Mobile Agents Using the Java Platform Debugger Architecture
• Portable Resource Reification in Java-Based Mobile Agent Systems
• Quantitative Evaluation and Benchmarking
• Mobile-Agent versus Client/Server Performance: Scalability in an Information-Retrieval Task
• Performance Evaluation of Mobile-Agent Middleware: A Hierarchical Approach
• Scheduling Multi-task Agents.