" I think this book will be the first standard introductory book on mobile agents."-José M.
Vidal, University of South Carolina Mobile agents are software nomads that act as your …

Temporal databases naturally contain a wealth of information that can be unearthed by
knowledge discovery and data mining techniques. Discovering association rules in market …

Mobility of software agents requires additional security measures. While the theoretical
aspects of mobile agent security have been widely studied, there are few studies about the …

This paper describes a security architecture for the Mansion mobile agent system. Mansion
is a logical framework designed to support large-scale heterogeneous mobile agent …

The idea of mobile software agents has inspired many researchers ever since the term was
coined probably by Jim White of General Magic around 1994, although the principal idea is …

The paper presents the new agent framework XJAF and its application on distributed library
catalogues. The framework is based on the Java EE technology and uses the concept of the …

In an open environment populated by large numbers of heterogeneous information services,
integration is a major challenge. In such a setting, the efficient coupling between directory …

EXtensible Java-based Agent Framework (XJAF) is a pluggable architecture of the
hierarchical intelligent agents system with communication based on KQML. Workers, Inc. is …

Mobile code has often been mentioned as an attractive technology for distributing
computations inside a Grid consisting of heterogeneous nodes interconnected by a large …

Current search engines crawl the Web, download content, and digest this content locally.
For multimedia content, this involves considerable volumes of data. Furthermore, this …