The increasing volume of Business-to-Consumer (B2C) and Business-to-Business (B2B)
Internet traffic provides great opportunity to delegate information search, analysis, and …

Emerging e-commerce systems are highly dynamic and require even more flexibility and
reduced time to market than that traditionally provided by product-line development and …

Mobile agents can migrate among nodes to perform a set of management tasks at each of
the visited nodes. Existing mobile agent-based network management systems often assume …

Mobile agents have attracted considerable interest in recent years. In the context of mobile
agents, fault tolerance is crucial to enable the integration of mobile agent technology into …

During a discussion in September 2000 the authors examined the future of research on
mobile agents and mobile code.(A mobile agent is a running program that can move from …

Agent technology has evolved rapidly over the past few years along a number of dimensions
giving rise to numerous “flavours” of agents such as intelligent agents, mobile agents, etc …

Wireless networks and the usage of mobile devices are becoming popular in recent days,
especially in creating ad-hoc networks. There is thus scope for developing mobile systems …

Gypsy is a component-based, dynamically extensible environment for mobile agent systems.
The runtime environment consists of lightweight servers that provide a distributed execution …

The production of maintainable and reusable agents depends largely on how well the agent
architecture is modularized. Most commercial agent toolkits provide an Object-Oriented (OO) …

This paper presents a framework for reusable mobile agents for network management in the
sense that they are independent of either particular networks or applications. The framework …