Mobile Agents for Distributed Transactions of a Distributed Heterogeneous Database System
DEXA '02 Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications
Architectural components for the efficient design of mobile agent systems
SAICSIT '03 Proceedings of the 2003 annual research conference of the South African institute of computer scientists and information technologists on Enablement through technology
Approaches to fault-tolerant and transactional mobile agent execution---an algorithmic view
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Scalable Network Management Using Lightweight Programmable Network Services
Journal of Network and Systems Management
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Mobile agents offer a new possibility for the development of applications in distributed systems and are no longer a theoretical issue since different architectures for their implementations have been proposed. With the increasing market of electronic commerce it becomes an interesting aspect to use autonomous mobile agents for electronic business transactions. Being involved in money transactions, supplementary security features for mobile agent systems have to be ensured. In this paper we present an architecture for a mobile agent system which offers fault tolerance for the whole agent system at a high level. This architecture additionally guarantees security for the host as well as security for the agent.To handle these issues for mobile agents we use various encryption mechanisms and we apply a novel method for mobile agent systems by using distributed transactions in our architecture. Due to this security architecture an agent will be enabled to carry out money transactions.