Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2001 in the subject Computer Science - Commercial Information Technology, Vienna University of Technology (Technische Naturwissenschaften und Informatik), language: English, abstract: Inhaltsangabe: Abstract: Even though the benefits of mobile agents have been highlighted in numerous research works, mobile agent applications are not in widespread use today. For the success of mobile agent applications, secure, portable, and efficient execution platforms for mobile agents are crucial. However, available mobile agent systems do not meet the high...