Mobile agents : basic concepts, mobility models, and the Tracy toolkit / Peter Braun, Wilhelm Rossak.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Braun, Peter.

Contributor:

Rossak, Wilhelm.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mobile agents (Computer software).

Intelligent agents (Computer software).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (465 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

San Francisco, CA : Elsevier : Morgan Kaufmann ; Heidelberg : Dpunkt.verlag, c2005.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Mobile agents are software nomads that act as your personal representative, working autonomously through networks. They are able to visit network nodes directly using available computing power and are not limited by platform. This emerging field is now poised to become a cornerstone for new Web-based ubiquitous computing environments. Mobile Agents provides a practical introduction to mobile agent technology and surveys the state of the art in mobile agent research. Students and researchers can use the book as an introduction to the concepts and possibilities of this field and as an ove

Contents:

Front Cover; Mobile Agents: Basic Concepts, Mobility Models, and the Tracy Toolkit; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Part I: Motivation for and Introduction to Mobile Agents; Chapter 1. Designing Innovative Distributed Systems; Chapter 2. From Client-Server to Mobile Agents; 2.1 A First Look at Mobile Agents; 2.2 A Short History of Mobile Agents; 2.3 Similar but Different Concepts; 2.4 Why Are Mobile Agents a Good Idea?; 2.5 Possible Application Domains of Mobile Agents; Part II: Mobile Agents - Concepts, Functions, and Possible Problems; Chapter 3. Mobile Agent Migration

3.1 The Mobile Agent Migration Process3.2 Effective Migration as a Core Feature of Mobile Agent Toolkits; 3.3 Design Issues of Agent Migration; 3.4 Reasoning about Improved Mobility Models; Chapter 4. Mobile Agent Communication; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Classification of Communication Models for Mobile Agents; 4.3 Solutions to Provide Location-Transparent Communication; Chapter 5. Mobile Agent Security; 5.1 Security Requirements and Cryptographic Techniques; 5.2 Taxonomy of Possible Attacks; 5.3 Introduction to the Proposed Solutions; 5.4 Organizational Solutions; 5.5 Protecting Mobile Agents

5.6 Protecting AgenciesPart III: The Kalong Mobility Model - Specification and Implementation; Chapter 6. Specifications of the Kalong Mobility Model; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Kalong Vocabulary; 6.3 Agent Model; 6.4 Application Programming Interfaces; 6.5 The SATP Migration Protocol; Chapter 7. Using Kalong; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Using the Kalong Component; 7.3 Extending Kalong; Chapter 8. Evaluation; 8.1 Related Work; 8.2 Methodology; 8.3 Results of the Basic Experiments; Part IV: The Tracy Mobile Agent Toolkit; Chapter 9. Running a Tracy Agency; 9.1 Welcome to Tracy; 9.2 Installation of Tracy

9.3 Starting and Stopping a Tracy Agency9.4 Installation and Usage of Basic Plugins; Chapter 10. Programming Agents with Tracy; 10.1 The First Agent; 10.2 Survival; 10.3 Place; 10.4 Messaging; 10.5 Migration; 10.6 Managing Logical-Agency Networks; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 401-418) and index.

ISBN:

9786611016241

9781281016249

1281016241

9780080473482

0080473482

OCLC:

437177071

Publisher Number:

9781558608177