Computer
KQML as an agent communication language
CIKM '94 Proceedings of the third international conference on Information and knowledge management
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Coordinating Multiagent Applications on the WWW: A Reference Architecture
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Market-based resource control for mobile agents
AGENTS '98 Proceedings of the second international conference on Autonomous agents
On the expressive power of a language for programming coordination media
SAC '98 Proceedings of the 1998 ACM symposium on Applied Computing
Coordination languages and their significance
Communications of the ACM
Programming and Deploying Java Mobile Agents Aglets
Programming and Deploying Java Mobile Agents Aglets
JavaSpaces Principles, Patterns, and Practice
JavaSpaces Principles, Patterns, and Practice
Network Modeling for Management Applications UsingIntelligent Mobile Agents
Journal of Network and Systems Management
An Open Secure Mobile Agent Framework for SystemsManagement
Journal of Network and Systems Management
MARS: A Programmable Coordination Architecture for Mobile Agents
IEEE Internet Computing
Streamlining the Digital Economy: How to Avert a Tragedy of the Commons
IEEE Internet Computing
Locality Abstraction and Security Models in a Mobile Agent Environment
WETICE '98 Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises
Mobile Agent Interaction in Heterogeneous Environments
MA '97 Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Mobile Agents
Exploiting Code Mobility in Decentralized and Flexible Network Management
MA '97 Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Mobile Agents
MA '97 Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Mobile Agents
Enabling a Mobile Network Manager (MNM) Through Mobile Agents
MA '98 Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Mobile Agents
Building Mobile Agent Applications in HiMAT
PDSE '99 Proceedings of the International Symposium on Software Engineering for Parallel and Distributed Systems
Distributed management by delegation
ICDCS '95 Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
IBM Systems Journal
A survey of active network research
IEEE Communications Magazine
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
A scalable group communication mechanism for mobile agents
Journal of Network and Computer Applications - Special issue: Network and information security: A computational intelligence approach
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Mobile agents are a promising technology to face the problems raised by the increasing complexity and size of today's networks. In particular, in the area of network management, mobile agents can lead to a fully distributed paradigm to overcome the limits of traditional centralized approaches. A basic requirement for the management of a complex network is the definition of high-level and flexible models to coordinate the accesses to the resources—data and services—provided by the network nodes. On this basis, this paper describes the MARS coordination architecture for mobile agents. MARS is based on the definition of programmable tuple spaces associated with the network nodes: mobile agents can access the local resources and services via the tuple space, thus adopting a standard and high-level interface. The network administrator—via mobile agents—can dynamically program the behavior of the tuple space in reaction to the agents' access to the tuple space, thus leading to a flexible network model. Several examples show the effectiveness of the MARS approach in supporting network management activities.