Agent systems, mobile agents, and applications : Second International Symposium on Agent Systems and Applications and Fourth International Symposium on Mobile Agents, ASA/MA 2000, Zürich, Switzerland, September 13-15, 2000 : proceedings

This book constitues the refereed proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Agent Systems and Applications and the Fourth International Symposium on Mobile Agents, ASA/MA 2000 held in Zürich, Switzerland in September 2000. The 20 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 107 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on migration, security issues, systems and applications, mobile agent applications, applications of multi-agent systems, communication and mobility control, cooperation and interaction. Front Matter....Pages - Invited Talk (Abstract): Data or Computation – Which Should We Move?....Pages 1-1 Strong Mobility and Fine-Grained Resource Control in NOMADS....Pages 2-15 Bytecode Transformation for Portable Thread Migration in Java....Pages 16-28 Portable Support for Transparent Thread Migration in Java....Pages 29-43 Secure Mobile Agent-Based Merchant Brokering in Distributed Marketplaces....Pages 44-56 Solving Fair Exchange with Mobile Agents....Pages 57-72 Principles of Mobile Maude....Pages 73-85 Secure Dynamic Reconfiguration of Scalable CORBA Systems with Mobile Agents....Pages 86-98 The Bond Agent System and Applications....Pages 99-112 MobiDoc: A Framework for Building Mobile Compound Documents from Hierarchical Mobile Agents....Pages 113-125 Distributed Collaborations Using Network Mobile Agents....Pages 126-137 Using Adaptation and Organisational Knowledge to Coordinate Mobile Agents....Pages 138-150 Multiple Agent-Based Autonomy for Satellite Constellations....Pages 151-165 Saving Energy and Providing Value Added Services in Intelligent Buildings: A MAS Approach....Pages 166-177 CarPAcities: Distributed Car Pool Agencies in Mobile Networks....Pages 178-191 Quantitative Evaluation of Pairwise Interactions between Agents....Pages 192-205 A Reliable Message Delivery Protocol for Mobile Agents....Pages 206-220 Monitoring-Based Dynamic Relocation of Components in FarGo....Pages 221-234 Agent-Based Negotiations for Multi-provider Interactions....Pages 235-248 Modeling Soccer-Robots Strategies through Conversation Policies....Pages 249-261 Using Intelligent Agents and a Personal Knowledge Management Application....Pages 262-274 Back Matter....Pages - This Book Constitues The Refereed Proceedings Of The Second International Symposium On Agent Systems And Applications And The Fourth International Symposium On Mobile Agents, Asa/ma 2000 Held In ZÃ1⁄4rich, Switzerland In September 2000. The 20 Revised Full Papers Presented Were Carefully Reviewed And Selected From 107 Submissions. The Papers Are Organized In Topical Sections On Migration, Security Issues, Systems And Applications, Mobile Agent Applications, Applications Of Multi-agent Systems, Communication And Mobility Control, Cooperation And Interaction. Mobile agent systems may be classified into two categories: those that support strong mobility and those that do not.