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

ISBN-13: 9783540424604 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 294 str.

Samuel Pierre;Roch Glitho

Opis

Mobile Agents areat the crossroadsof twomore ancient concepts: agentand mobility. Theconceptofagentappearedinthe?eldofarti?cialintelligence(AI) inthelate1970sandisratherfuzzy, leadingtomanyde?nitions. Anagentis usually de?ned as a software servant that either relieves the user of routine, burdensome tasks such as appointment scheduling and e-mail disposition, or sortstheinformationthatisrelevanttotheuser scurrentinterestsandneeds. This de?nition has made agent a buzzword within both the academic and industrialworlds. Mobileagentsrefertoself-containedandidenti?ablecomputerprogramsthat canmovewithinthenetworkandcanactonbehalfoftheuseroranotherentity. Even if they are de?ned as a special class of agents that have mobility as a secondarycharacteristic, itismoreappropriatetoconsidermobileagentsasthe achievementofmobileabstractions(code, objectsorprocesses). Theyareoften consideredasanalternativeand/oracomplementforotherparadigmssuchas thewell-establishedclient-server. Insteadoftransferringlargeamountsofdata between the client programand the server, a mobile agent movesto the host withthedataandpertinentresources. Mobileagentshavebeenusedinapplicationsrangingfrominformation- trievaltoe-commerce, includingtelecommunicationsandnetworkmanagement. Althoughtheirproponentsassociateseveralbene?tswiththeiruse, theyremain acontentiousissuebecauseof, forinstance, thelackofinnovativeapplications backingtheirclaimswithconcretestudies. Theaimoftheworkshopwastoprovideauniqueopportunityforresearchers, softwareandapplicationdevelopers, andcomputernetworktechnologiststod- cuss new developments on the mobile agent technologyand applications. The workshopfocuses on mobile agent issuesacrossthe areasof networkmana- ment, mobile applications, Nomadic computing, feature interactions, Internet applications, QoSmanagement, policy-basedmanagement, interactivemulti- dia, tele-learningapplications, andcomputertelephonyintegration. August2001 SamuelPierreandRochGlitho Organizing Committee General Chair: SamuelPierre EcolePolytechniquedeMontreal, Canada Program Chair: RochGlitho EricssonResearchCanada Tutorial Co-Chairs: Jean-CharlesBernard EcolePolytechniquedeMontreal, Canada WilfriedG. Probst UniversiteduQuebecaMontreal, Canada ThomasM. Chen SouthernMethodistUniversity, USA PublicityCo-Chairs: RamiroLiscano MitelCorporation, Canada LarbiEsmahi NationalResearchCouncilofCanada Geng-ShengKuo NationalCentralUniversity, Taiwan AntonioLiotta UniversityofSurrey, UK Local Management Committee Jean-CharlesBernard, EcolePolytechniquedeMontreal, Canada DenisMonette, EricssonResearchCanada RochGlitho, EricssonResearchCanada SabineKebreau, EcolePolytechniquedeMontreal, Canada RaymondLevesque, BureaudesCongresUniversitaires, Canada VII Program Committee A. L. Ananda, NUS, Singapore J. -C. Bernard, EcolePolytechniquedeMontreal, Canada A. Bieszczad, LucentTechnologies, USA R. Boutaba, UniversityofWaterloo, Canada J. Delgado, UniversitatPompeuFabra, Barcelona, Spain P. Dini, CiscoSystemsInc., USA L. Esmahi, NRC, Canada B. Falchuk, Bellcore, USA N. Fonseca, Unicamp, Brazil V. Gay, UTS, Australia M. -P. Gervais, LIP6, France R. Glitho, EricssonResearchCanada T. Gray, MitelCorp, Canada C. Grossner, NortelNetworks, Canada H. H. Hoang, EcolePolytechniquedeMontreal, Canada E. Horlait, LIP6, France J. G. Hulaas, UniversityofGeneva, Switzerland R. Impey, NRC, Canada I. Jabbari, GeorgeMasonUniversity, USA P. Joye, UniversityofAppliedSciencesofWesternSwitzerland A. Karmouch, UniversityofOttawa, Canada R. Liscano, MitelCorporation, Canada T. Magedanz, IKV++GMD, Germany C. Petitpierre, SwissFederalInstituteofTechnology, Switzerland A. Quintero, EcolePolytechniquedeMontreal, Canada S. Soulhi, EricssonCanada J. -F. Wagen, Univ. ofAppliedSciencesofWesternSwitzerland MATAWorkshop SteeringCommittee EricHorlait, LIP6, France RogerImpey, NRC, Canada AhmedKarmouch, UniversityofOttawa, Canada ThomasMagedanz, IKV++GMD, Germany Table of Contents DynamicCongestionAvoidanceUsingMulti-agentSystems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 N. Rouhana, E. Horlait UseofAgentsforResolvingFeatureInteractions. . . . . . . . . . .

Spis treści

Dynamic Congestion Avoidance Using Multi-Agents Systems.- Use of agents for resolving feature interactions.- IMAGO: A Prolog-based System for Intelligent Mobile Agents.- Mobile Agents and Legacy Systems: How to Integrate Alternative Communication Paradigms.- Agent-Based Distance Vector Routing.- High Availability Connection Management via Software Bus and Mobile Agent in Network Management Environment.- Multipoint-to-Point Routing With QoS Guarantees Using Mobile Agents.- Dynamic Composition of Execution Environment for Adaptive Nomadic Applications.- Network Processing of Mobile Agents, by Mobile Agents, for Mobile Agents.- Design of a Mobile Agent-Based Workflow Management System.- Towards an Agent-based Distributed Hierarchical Network Management System for All-Optical Networks.- A Policy Management System for Mobile Agent-Based Services.- A Multi-agent Architecture for Intelligent Mobile Agents.- A Self-adaptable Agent System for Efficient Information Gathering.- An Agent-based Approach to Full Interoperability and Allocation Transparency in Distributed File Systems.- A Proposal of PVCs Configuration Methodology Employing Mobile Agents.- SITA: Protecting Internet Trade Agents from Malicious Hosts.- Applying Mobile Agents to Enable Dynamic, Context-Aware Interactions for Mobile Phone Users.- Using Mobile Agents for Managing Control and Alarms in Urban Infrastructures.- The Spider Model of Agents.- On the Modeling of Mobile Agent-Based Systems.- Multi-domain Policy Based Management Using Mobile Agents.- A Mobile Agent Prototype for Distributed Search.- Using the Cross-Entropy Method to Guide/Govern Mobile Agent’s Path Finding in Networks.- Context Gathering Mobile Agents to Assist in Resource Reservation for Inter-technology Hand-off.- Towards a Secure Agent Platform Based on FIPA.