Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications: Second International Workshop, MATA 2000 Paris, France, September 18–20, 2000 Proceedings

Romit RoyChoudhuri, S. Bandyopadhyay, Krishna Paul (auth.), Eric Horlait (eds.)3540410694, 9783540410690

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.

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Table of contents :
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