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 / David Kotz, Friedemann Mattern (eds.)
Invited Talk -- Invited Talk (Abstract): Data or Computation -- Which Should We Move? -- Migration -- Strong Mobility and Fine-Grained Resource Control in NOMADS -- Bytecode Transformation for Portable Thread Migration in Java -- Portable Support for Transparent Thread Migration in Java -- Security Issues of Mobile Agents -- Secure Mobile Agent-Based Merchant Brokering in Distributed Marketplaces -- Solving Fair Exchange with Mobile Agents -- Systems and Applications -- Principles of Mobile Maude -- Secure Dynamic Reconfiguration of Scalable CORBA Systems with Mobile Agents -- The Bond Agent System and Applications -- Mobile Agent Application -- MobiDoc: A Framework for Building Mobile Compound Documents from Hierarchical Mobile Agents -- Distributed Collaborations Using Network Mobile Agents -- Using Adaptation and Organisational Knowledge to Coordinate Mobile Agents -- Applications of Multi-agent Systems -- Multiple Agent-Based Autonomy for Satellite Constellations -- Saving Energy and Providing Value Added Services in Intelligent Buildings: A MAS Approach -- CarPAcities: Distributed Car Pool Agencies in Mobile Networks -- Communication and Mobility Control -- Quantitative Evaluation of Pairwise Interactions between Agents -- A Reliable Message Delivery Protocol for Mobile Agents -- Monitoring-Based Dynamic Relocation of Components in FarGo -- Cooperation and Interaction -- Agent-Based Negotiations for Multi-provider Interactions -- Modeling Soccer-Robots Strategies through Conversation Policies -- Using Intelligent Agents and a Personal Knowledge Management Application
Summary
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 Zrich, 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
