Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications: Second International Workshop, MATA 2000, Paris, France, September 18-20, 2000 Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1931)

Mobile Agents Refer To Self-contained And Identi?able Computer Programs That Can Move Within The Network And Can Act On Behalf Of The User Or Another Entity. Most Of The Current Research Work On The Mobile Agent Paradigm Has Two General Goals: Reduction Of Network Traf?c And Asynchronous Interaction. These Two Goals Stem Directly From The Desire To Reduce Information Overload And To Ef?ciently Use Network Resources. There Are Certainly Many Motivations For The Use Of A Mobile Agent Paradigm; H- Ever, Intelligent Information Retrieval, Network And Mobility Management, And Network Services Are Currently The Three Most Cited Application Targets For A Mobile Agent System. The Aim Of The Workshop Is To Provide A Unique Opportunity For Researchers, Software And Application Developers, And Computer Network Technologists To Discuss New Dev- Opments In The Mobile Agent Technology And Applications. After Last Year’s Very Successful Workshop In Ottawa, Canada (110 Attendees), This Year’s Workshop Will Focus On Mobile Agent Issues Across The Areas Of Network M- Agement, Mobile Applications, Nomadic Computing, E-commerce, Ad-hoc Networks And Applications, Feature Interactions, Internet Applications, Qos Management, Policybased Management, Interactive Multimedia, And Computer–telephony Integration. Ad-hoc Networks And Applications -- Topology Discovery In Ad Hoc Wireless Networks Using Mobile Agents -- Mobile Code, Adaptive Mobile Applications, And Network Architectures -- Toward A Mobile Work Environment -- Network Management -- Handling Subscription In A Mobile Agent Based Service Environment For Internet Telephony: Swapping Agents -- Mobile Network Domain Agency For Managing Network Resources -- Partitioning Applications With Agents -- Evaluating The Network Performance Management Based On Mobile Agents -- Architecture And Methodologies —1 -- Visualizing Mobile Agent Executions -- Towards Policy-driven Agent System Development And Management -- Modeling An Omg-masif Compliant Mobile Agent Platform With The Rm-odp Engineering Language -- Active Networks -- Active Networks For Ipv6 Communication Redirection -- An Agent-inspired Active Network Resource Trading Model Applied To Congestion Control -- On Synchronization In A Mobile Environment -- Yaap: Yet Another Active Platform -- Agent-based Applications -- Searching For Music With Agents -- Use Of Mobile Agents For Ipr Management And Negotiation -- The Effects Of Mobile Agent Performance On Mp3 Streaming Applications -- Semi-trusted Hosts And Mobile Agents: Enabling Secure Distributed Computations -- Architecture And Methodologies —2 -- Nomadic Users’ Support In The Map Agent Platform -- Keyphrase-based Information Sharing In The Acorn Multi-agent Architecture -- Agents Based Implementation Of Personalised News Delivery Service. Eric Horlait (ed.). Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Topology Discovery in ad hoc Wireless Networks Using Mobile Agents....Pages 1-15 Mobile Code, Adaptive Mobile Applications, and Network Architectures....Pages 17-28 Toward a Mobile Work Environment....Pages 29-48 Handling Subscription in a Mobile Agent Based Service Environment for Internet Telephony: Swapping Agents....Pages 49-66 Mobile Network Domain Agency for Managing Network Resources....Pages 67-78 Partitioning Applications with Agents....Pages 79-93 Evaluating the Network Performance Management Based on Mobile Agents....Pages 95-102 Visualizing Mobile Agent Executions....Pages 103-114 Towards Policy-Driven Agent System Development and Management....Pages 115-128 Modeling an OMG-MASIF Compliant Mobile Agent Platform with the RM-ODP Engineering Language....Pages 129-137 Active Networks for IPv6 Communication Redirection....Pages 139-150 An Agent-Inspired Active Network Resource Trading Model Applied to Congestion Control....Pages 151-169 On Synchronization in a Mobile Environment....Pages 171-183 YAAP: Yet Another Active Platform....Pages 185-194 Searching for Music with Agents....Pages 195-203 Use of Mobile Agents for IPR Management and Negotiation....Pages 205-213 The Effects of Mobile Agent Performance on Mp3 Streaming Applications....Pages 215-217 Semi-trusted Hosts and Mobile Agents: Enabling Secure Distributed Computations....Pages 219-230 Nomadic Users’ Support in the MAP Agent Platform....Pages 233-241 Keyphrase-Based Information Sharing in the ACORN Multi-agent Architecture....Pages 243-256 Agents Based Implementation of Personalised News Delivery Service....Pages 257-269 Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications: Second International Workshop, MATA 2000 Paris, France, September 18–20, 2000 Proceedings Author: Eric Horlait Published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg ISBN: 978-3-540-41069-0 DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45391-1 Table of Contents: Topology Discovery in ad hoc Wireless Networks Using Mobile Agents Mobile Code, Adaptive Mobile Applications, and Network Architectures Toward a Mobile Work Environment Handling Subscription in a Mobile Agent Based Service Environment for Internet Telephony: Swapping Agents Mobile Network Domain Agency for Managing Network Resources Partitioning Applications with Agents Evaluating the Network Performance Management Based on Mobile Agents Visualizing Mobile Agent Executions Towards Policy-Driven Agent System Development and Management Modeling an OMG-MASIF Compliant Mobile Agent Platform with the RM-ODP Engineering Language Active Networks for IPv6 Communication Redirection An Agent-Inspired Active Network Resource Trading Model Applied to Congestion Control On Synchronization in a Mobile Environment YAAP: Yet Another Active Platform Searching for Music with Agents Use of Mobile Agents for IPR Management and Negotiation The Effects of Mobile Agent Performance on Mp3 Streaming Applications Semi-trusted Hosts and Mobile Agents: Enabling Secure Distributed Computations Nomadic Users’ Support in the MAP Agent Platform Keyphrase-Based Information Sharing in the ACORN Multi-agent Architecture This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications, MATA 2000, held in Paris, France in September 2000. The 21 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on ad-hoc networks and applications, network management, architecture and methodologies, active networks, and agent-based applications A mobile agent is a program that can move through a network under its own control, capable of navigating through the underlying network and performing various tasks at each node independently [1].