Mobile Agents

Peter Braun is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Intelligent and Multi-Agent Systems in the Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. Previously he was a faculty member in the Software Engineering Group of the computer science department at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany. He received a M.S. degree and a Ph.D. in computer science from FSU Jena. His research interests include mobile agents, especially agent migration protocols, and Grid services. Willi Rossak is professor of Software and Systems Engineering at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany. He specializes in the modeling and development of distributed dynamic systems with a focus on the upstream tasks of the software life cycle. He received his Diploma and Ph.D. in computer science from the Vienna University of Technology, Austria. He has published more than sixty research papers on a wide variety of topics in software and systems engineering. He also works as a consultant for the IT industry and research institutions in many countries.

"I think this book will be the first standard introductory book on mobile agents" --José M. Vidal, University of South Carolina

• Part I Motivation for and Introduction to Mobile Agents; 1 Designing Innovative Distributed Systems; 2 From Client-Server to Mobile Agents; Part II Mobile Agents—Concepts, Functions, and Possible Problems; 3 Mobile Agent Migration; 4 Mobile Agent Communication; 5 Mobile Agent Security; Part III The Kalong Mobility Model—Specification and Implementation; Chapter 6 Specifications of the Kalong Mobility Model; Chapter 7 Using Kalong; Chapter 8 Evaluation; Part IV The Tracy Mobile Agent Toolkit; Chapter 9 Running a Tracy Agency; Chapter 10 Programming Agents with Tracy; Bibliography; Index