Research in the telecommunications ?eld suggests that future network infrastructures will be composed of sensors, wireless devices, personal digital assistants, networked appliances and numerous types of services. This brings up key issues such as unfamiliar users and service interfaces, discovering services that match user’s needs, ?nding and tracking people and resources, establishing useful contacts and appropriate associations between resources and users, and managing a large number of dynamic network entities all of which must be performed in an automated and proactive manner with a certain degree of autonomy and mobility. These are the main characteristics exhibited by mobile software agent behavior, making the technology more suitable for future telecommu- cation applications and services. It also reveals the tremendous potential for the mobile agent paradigm. The potential complexity of mobile agent operation requires that mechanisms exist on several levels to coordinate its activities. For this purpose research and development on various forms of mobile agents continues to grow in a staggering fashion. Age- based applications and services such as network management, e-commerce, information gathering on the Internet, mobile communications, active networking, and most recently ad hoc communications are becoming increasingly popular and continue to contribute to the development and to the success of mobile agent technology. In addition it is well established that mobile agents is an ideal sister technology for mobile ad hoc networks where users, applications, services, devices and networks are mobile and dynamically con?gurable.
Author(s): Santtu Toivonen, Heikki Helin (auth.), Ahmed Karmouch, Thomas Magedanz, Jaime Delgado (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2521
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 324
Tags: Computer Communication Networks; Software Engineering; Operating Systems; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Communications Engineering, Networks
Options for Reusing Agent Conversations....Pages 1-10
Multi-management Schemes for MAF Platforms....Pages 11-20
An Architecture for Negotiation with Mobile Agents....Pages 21-33
Internet Agents for Effective Collaboration....Pages 33-47
Programming and Executing Telecommunication Service Logic with Moorea Reactive Mobile Agents....Pages 48-57
Generic Engineering Approach for Agent-Based System Development....Pages 58-71
An Ecosystem-Inspired Mobile Agent Middleware for Active Network Management....Pages 73-82
An Enhanced Mobility Management Mechanism for Active Access Networks....Pages 83-93
An Architecture for Active Network Performance Management Based on Intelligent Agents....Pages 94-103
Agent-Based Context-Aware Ad Hoc Communication....Pages 105-118
Designing Multimedia Service Agents for Mobile Users....Pages 119-127
A Mobile Agent-Based Framework for Configurable Sensor Networks....Pages 128-139
Evaluation of Migration Strategies for Mobile Agents in Network Routing....Pages 141-150
A Hybrid Approach to Network Performance Monitoring Based on Mobile Agents and CORBA....Pages 151-162
Mobile Agent Distribution in a Game-Theoretic Approach....Pages 163-170
Anonymous Communications for Mobile Agents....Pages 171-181
Implementation of Secure Architectures for Mobile Agents in MARISM-A....Pages 182-191
Quality of Service Management in IP Networks Using Mobile Agent Technology....Pages 193-205
Transparent QoS Support of Network Applications Using Netlets....Pages 206-215
FIPA-Based QoS Negotiator for Nomadic Agents....Pages 216-225
System and Network Management Itineraries for Mobile Agents....Pages 227-238
Four Multi-agent Architectures for Intelligent Network Load Management....Pages 239-248
Automated Management of IP Networks through Policy and Mobile Agents....Pages 249-258
Facilitating Agent Messaging on PDAs....Pages 259-268
Mobile Agents for Discovering and Accessing Services in Nomadic Environments....Pages 269-279
An Extensible Mobile-Agent-Based Framework for Coordinating Distributed Information Retrieval Applications....Pages 281-291
Seamless Incorporation of Agents in an E-Commerce Intermediation Platform....Pages 292-301
UNITE - An Agent-Oriented Teamwork Environment....Pages 302-315
