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Finding the position of a mobile agent in a wide distributed system still represents an open research issue. The various existing mobile agent platforms implement ad hoc naming and location policies, studied to address the requirements of the design choices made. This paper proposes a naming scheme and a location protocol of general validity for mobile agents able to effectively meet all the typical requirements of mobile agent environments and, thus, easy to integrate into different platforms. The paper identifies the main characteristics which an agent naming scheme and a location protocol of general validity should have, and suggests some properties and parameters to be taken into account to evaluate the effectiveness of naming schemes and location protocols. Then, we propose a 驴human readable驴 agent naming scheme based on the distributed environment outlined in MASIF, and a suitable location finding protocol called the Search-By-Path-Chase. Both of them are compared with some of the solutions already provided, using the properties and the parameters suggested. The performances are finally evaluated by means of a set of measurements.