Enabling technology for knowledge sharing
AI Magazine
Agent design patterns: elements of agent application design
AGENTS '98 Proceedings of the second international conference on Autonomous agents
Agent system development method based on agent patterns
Proceedings of the 21st international conference on Software engineering
An application framework for intelligent and mobile agents
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
A framework for distributed management with mobile components
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking - Special issue on selected topics in network and systems management
Journal of Systems and Software
Cryptographic support for fault-tolerant distributed computing
EW 7 Proceedings of the 7th workshop on ACM SIGOPS European workshop: Systems support for worldwide applications
Mobile agent evolution computing
Information Sciences: an International Journal
D'Agents: applications and performance of a mobile-agent system
Software—Practice & Experience - Special issue: Mobile agent systems
IEEE Concurrency
Mobile Agent Interoperability Patterns and Practice
ECBS '02 Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Computer-Based Systems
Towards Fault-Tolerant and Secure Agentry
WDAG '97 Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Distributed Algorithms
Secure Recording of Itineraries through Co-operating Agents
ECOOP '98 Workshop ion on Object-Oriented Technology
MASIF: The OMG Mobile Agent System Interoperability Facility
MA '98 Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Mobile Agents
Infrastructure for Mobile Agents: Requirements and Design
MA '98 Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Mobile Agents
Web-Based Agent Applications: User Interfaces and Mobile Agents
IS&N '00 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Intelligence and Services in Networks: Telecommunications and IT Convergence Towards Service E-volution
Distributed Transaction Processing as a Reliability Concept for Mobile Agents
FTDCS '97 Proceedings of the 6th IEEE Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems
Mobile Agents and Java Mobile Agents Toolkits
HICSS '00 Proceedings of the 33rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-Volume 8 - Volume 8
Mobile agents can benefit from standards efforts on interagent communication
IEEE Communications Magazine
Countermeasures for mobile agent security
Computer Communications
Ethical design issues in cyberspace
WISICT '05 Proceedings of the 4th international symposium on Information and communication technologies
Aligning system architectures on requirements of mobile business processes
SE'07 Proceedings of the 25th conference on IASTED International Multi-Conference: Software Engineering
A secure framework exploiting content guided and automated algorithms for real time video searching
Multimedia Tools and Applications
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Over the past eighteen months, there has been a renewed interest in mobile agent technology due to the continued exponential growth of Internet applications, the establishment of open standards for these applications, as well as the semantic web developments. However, the lack of a standardised programming model addressing all aspects of mobile agent systems prevents widespread deployment of the potentially useful technology. The architectural requirements dealing with all aspects of a mobile agent system are not clearly stipulated. As a result, the commercially available mobile agent systems and mobile agent tool kits address different mobile agent issues, and little reuse of available technologies and architectures takes place. The purpose of this paper is to describe an architectural model that identifies the components representing the essential aspects of a mobile agent system. Due to the intensive nature of development, implementation and testing of this model, we describe preliminary work. However, in the meanwhile, there are benefits associated with this preliminary model, namely that it provides a clear understanding of the architectural issues of mobile agent computing, giving novice researchers and practitioners who enters the field for the first time a foundation for making sensible decisions when researching, designing and developing mobile agents. The model is also significant in that it provides a benchmark for researchers and developers to measure the capabilities of mobile agents created by commercially available tool kits.