The study of multi-agent systems (MAS) focuses on systems in which many intelligent agents
interact with each other. These agents are considered to be autonomous entities such as …

The vast amount of heterogeneous information sources available on the Internet demands
advanced solutions for acquiring, mediating, and maintaining relevant information for the …

D'Agents is a general‐purpose mobile‐agent system that has been used in several
information‐retrieval applications. In this paper, we first examine one such application …

Mobile agents emerged in the mid-1990s, and have raised considerable interest in the
research community. The proponents associate several benefits with their use. However …

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 …

A mobile agent is a software program with the capability to suspend its execution and
resume it on another computer. Agents are a relatively recent development in computer …

Mobile agent technology has been used in various applications including e-commerce,
information processing, distributed network management, and database access. Information …

A modern distributed industrial system, such as a power transmission system, consists of
many sites distributed throughout a wide area. Each site contains a number of monitoring …

The complexity of the current global information infrastructure requires novel means of
understanding and exploiting the dynamics of information. One means may be through the …

We address the problem of mobile agents searching a ring network for a highly harmful item,
a black hole, a stationary process destroying visiting agents upon their arrival. No …