Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications: Third International Workshop, MATA 2001 Montreal, Canada, August 14–16, 2001 Proceedings

✍ Scribed by 1Nicolas Rouhana, Eric Horlait (auth.), Samuel Pierre, Roch Glitho (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 303
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2164
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications, MATA 2001, held in Montreal, Canada in August 2001. The 26 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the volume. Among the topics addressed are network management, mobile applications, nomadic computing, feature interaction, Internet applications, QoS managment, policy-based management, interactive multimedia, tele-learning, and computer telephony integration.

✦ Table of Contents

Dynamic Congestion Avoidance Using Multi-Agents Systems....Pages 1-10
Use of agents for resolving feature interactions....Pages 11-20
IMAGO: A Prolog-based System for Intelligent Mobile Agents....Pages 21-30
Mobile Agents and Legacy Systems: How to Integrate Alternative Communication Paradigms....Pages 31-40
Agent-Based Distance Vector Routing....Pages 41-50
High Availability Connection Management via Software Bus and Mobile Agent in Network Management Environment....Pages 51-62
Multipoint-to-Point Routing With QoS Guarantees Using Mobile Agents....Pages 63-72
Dynamic Composition of Execution Environment for Adaptive Nomadic Applications....Pages 73-80
Network Processing of Mobile Agents, by Mobile Agents, for Mobile Agents....Pages 81-92
Design of a Mobile Agent-Based Workflow Management System....Pages 93-102
Towards an Agent-based Distributed Hierarchical Network Management System for All-Optical Networks....Pages 103-113
A Policy Management System for Mobile Agent-Based Services....Pages 114-123
A Multi-agent Architecture for Intelligent Mobile Agents....Pages 125-138
A Self-adaptable Agent System for Efficient Information Gathering....Pages 139-152
An Agent-based Approach to Full Interoperability and Allocation Transparency in Distributed File Systems....Pages 154-162
A Proposal of PVCs Configuration Methodology Employing Mobile Agents....Pages 163-172
SITA: Protecting Internet Trade Agents from Malicious Hosts....Pages 173-183
Applying Mobile Agents to Enable Dynamic, Context-Aware Interactions for Mobile Phone Users....Pages 184-194
Using Mobile Agents for Managing Control and Alarms in Urban Infrastructures....Pages 195-209
The Spider Model of Agents....Pages 209-219
On the Modeling of Mobile Agent-Based Systems....Pages 219-233
Multi-domain Policy Based Management Using Mobile Agents....Pages 235-244
A Mobile Agent Prototype for Distributed Search....Pages 245-254
Using the Cross-Entropy Method to Guide/Govern Mobile Agent’s Path Finding in Networks....Pages 255-268
Context Gathering Mobile Agents to Assist in Resource Reservation for Inter-technology Hand-off....Pages 269-276
Towards a Secure Agent Platform Based on FIPA....Pages 277-290

✦ Subjects

Computer Communication Networks; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Multimedia Information Systems; Business Information Systems; Communications Engineering, Networks