Mobile Agents: 5th International Conference, Ma 2001 Atlanta, Ga, Usa, December 2-4, 2001 Proceedings - Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Security.- On the Robustness of Some Cryptographic Protocols for Mobile Agent Protection.- Trust Relationships in a Mobile Agent System.- Evaluating the Security of Three Java-Based Mobile Agent Systems.- Models and Architectures.- Formal Specification and Verification of Mobile Agent Data Integrity Properties: A Case Study.- Lime Revisited.- Dynamic Adaptation of Mobile Agents in Heterogenous Environments.- Applications.- Fast File Access for Fast Agents.- Flying Emulator: Rapid Building and Testing of Networked Applications for Mobile Computers.- Crawlets: Agents for High Performance Web Search Engines.- Communication.- An Efficient Mailbox-Based Algorithm for Message Delivery in Mobile Agent Systems.- Using Predicates for Specifying Targets of Migration and Messages in a Peer-to-Peer Mobile Agent Environment.- A Scalable and Secure Global Tracking Service for Mobile Agents.- Run-Time Support.- Translating Strong Mobility into Weak Mobility.- Transparent Migration of Mobile Agents Using the Java Platform Debugger Architecture.- Portable Resource Reification in Java-Based Mobile Agent Systems.- Quantitative Evaluation and Benchmarking.- Mobile-Agent versus Client/Server Performance: Scalability in an Information-Retrieval Task.- Performance Evaluation of Mobile-Agent Middleware: A Hierarchical Approach.- Scheduling Multi-task Agents. Publisher Marketing: These are the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Mobile Agents, MA 2001, held in Atlanta, GA, USA in December 2001. The 18 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 75 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on security, models and architectures, applications, communication, run-time support, and quantitative evaluation and benchmarking.