Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications: Second International Workshop, MATA 2000 Paris, France, September 18–20, 2000 Proceedings

269 Pages·2000·7.686 MB·English

by  Romit RoyChoudhuri, S. Bandyopadhyay, Krishna Paul (auth.), Eric Horlait (eds.)

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Mobile Agents
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Second International Workshop, MATA 2000
Paris, France, September 18-20, 2000
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Preface
Mobile agents refer to self-contained and identifiable computer programs that can
movewithinthenetworkandcanactonbehalfoftheuseroranotherentity.Mostofthe
current research work on the mobile agent paradigm has two general goals: reduction
ofnetworktrafficandasynchronousinteraction.Thesetwogoalsstemdirectlyfromthe
desiretoreduceinformationoverloadandtoefficientlyusenetworkresources.
Therearecertainlymanymotivationsfortheuseofamobileagentparadigm;how-
ever,intelligentinformationretrieval,networkandmobilitymanagement,andnetwork
servicesarecurrentlythethreemostcitedapplicationtargetsforamobileagentsystem.
The aim of the workshop is to provide a unique opportunity for researchers, software
andapplicationdevelopers,andcomputernetworktechnologiststodiscussnewdevel-
opmentsinthemobileagenttechnologyandapplications.
Afterlastyear’sverysuccessfulworkshopinOttawa,Canada(110attendees),this
year’s workshop will focus on mobile agent issues across the areas of network man-
agement,mobileapplications,nomadiccomputing,e-commerce,ad-hocnetworksand
applications,featureinteractions,Internetapplications,QoSmanagement,policybased
management,interactivemultimedia,andcomputer–telephonyintegration.
September2000 EricHorlait
ScientificProgramCommittee
MihaiBarbuceanu,UniversityofToronto,Canada
RaoufBoutaba,WaterlooUniversity,Canada
Jean-PierreBriot,LIP6,France
Jean-PierreCourtiat,LAAS,France
JaimeDelgado,UniversitatPompeuFabra,Spain
PetreDini,AT&T,USA
AndrzejDuda,LSR-IMAG,France
BenjaminFalchuk,TelcordiaTechnologies,USA
NelsonFonseca,Unicamp,Brazil
DamianosGavalas,UniversityofEssex,UnitedKingdom
ValerieGay,UTS,Australia
Marie-PierreGervais,LIP6,France
RochGlitho,Ericsson,Sweden
CliffordGrossner,NortelNetworks,Canada
EricHorlait,LIP6,France
RogerImpey,NationalResearchCouncil,Canada
BijanJabbari,GeorgeMasonUniversity,USA
AhmedKarmouch,UniversityofOttawa,Canada
RamiroLiscano,NationalResearchCouncil,Canada
ThomasMagedanz,IKV++GmbH,Germany
JohnMeech,NetworkComputingGroup,IIT,Canada
BerniePagurek,CarletonUniversity,Canada
MichelRiguidel,Thomson,France
MichelSoto,LIP6,France
MATAWorkshopSteeringCommittee
EricHorlait,LIP6,France
RogerImpey,NationalResearchCouncil,Canada
AhmedKarmouch,UniversityofOttawa,Canada,Chair
ThomasMagedanz,IKV++GmbH,Germany
Table of Contents
Ad-hocNetworksandApplications
TopologyDiscoveryinAdHocWirelessNetworksUsingMobileAgents ....... 1
RomitRoyChoudhury,SomprakashBandyopadhyay,KrishnaPaul
(HaldiaInstituteofTechnology,PricewaterhousecoopersLtd.,
CognizantTechnologySolutions,India)
MobileCode,AdaptiveMobileApplications,andNetworkArchitectures ....... 17
SalimOmar,XinanZhou,ThomasKunz(CarletonUniversity,Canada)
TowardaMobileWorkEnvironment .................................... 29
LarbiEsmahi,RogerImpey,RamiroLiscano
(NRC,MitelCorporation,Canada)
NetworkManagement
HandlingSubscriptioninaMobileAgent-BasedServiceEnvironment
forInternetTelephony:SwappingAgents ................................ 49
RochH.Glitho,BertrandE.Lenou,SamuelPierre
(Ericsson,EcolePolytechnique,Canada)
MobileNetworkDomainAgencyforManagingNetworkResources ........... 67
FaragSallabi,AhmedKarmouch(UniversityofOttawa,Canada)
PartitioningApplicationswithAgents ................................... 79
OskariKoskimies,KimmoRaatikainen
(UniversityofHelsinki,Finland)
EvaluatingtheNetworkPerformanceManagementBasedonMobileAgents .... 95
MarceloGoncalvesRubinstein,OttoCarlosM.B.Duarte,GuyPujolle
(UniversidadeFederaldoRiodeJaneiro,Brazil,
Universite´ deVersailles-StQuentin,France)
ArchitectureandMethodologies–1
VisualizingMobileAgentExecutions ................................... 103
YiWang,ThomasKunz(CarletonUniversity,Canada)
TowardsPolicy-DrivenAgentDevelopmentandManagement ................ 115
LarryKorba,FuhuaLin(NRC,Canada)
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ModelinganOMG-MASIFCompliantMobileAgentPlatform
withtheRM-ODPEngineeringLanguage ................................ 129
FlorinMuscutariu,Marie-PierreGervais
(Universite´ PierreetMarieCurie-LIP6,France)
ActiveNetworks
ActiveNetworksforIPv6CommunicationRedirection...................... 139
MouhamadouLamineDiagne,ThomasNoel,Jean-JacquesPansiot,
(Universite´ LouisPasteur-LSIIT,France)
AnAgent-InspiredActiveNetworkResourceTradingModel
AppliedtoCongestionControl......................................... 151
LidiaYamamoto,GuyLeduc(Universite´ deLie`ge,Belgique)
OnSynchronizationinaMobileEnvironment............................. 171
AncaRarau,IoanSalomie,KalmanPusztai
(TechnicalUniversityofCluj-Napoca,Romania)
YAAP:YetAnotherActivePlatform .................................... 185
NicolasRouhana,SamerBoustany,EricHorlait(UniversitySt-Joseph,Libanon,
Universite´ PierreetMarieCurie-LIP6,France)
Agent-BasedApplications
SearchingforMusicwithAgents ....................................... 195
NatashaKravtsova,AndreMeyer(PhilipsResearch,Netherlands)
UseofMobileAgentsforIPRManagementandNegotiation ................. 205
IsabelGallego,JaimeDelgado,RobertoGarc´ıa
(UniversitatPolite`nicadeCatalunya,UniversitatPompeuFabra,Spain)
TheEffectsofMobileAgentPerformanceonMP3StreamingApplications ..... 215
B.Thai,A.Seneviratne(UniversityofNewSouthWales,Australia)
Semi-trustedHostsandMobileAgents:
EnablingSecureDistributedComputations ............................... 219
BartDeDecker,FrankPiessens,ErikVanHoeymissen,GregoryNeven
(Universite´ deLouvain,Belgique)
ArchitectureandMethodologies–2
NomadicUsers’SupportintheMAPAgentPlatform ....................... 233
OrazioTomarchio,LorenzoVita,AntonioPuliafito
(UniversityofMessina,UniversityofCatania,Italy)
Table of Contents IX
Keyphrase-BasedInformationSharingintheACORNMulti-agent
Architecture........................................................ 243
HuiYu,AliA.Ghorbani,VirendraC.Bhavsar,StephenMarsh
(NRC,Canada)
AgentsBasedImplementationofPersonalisedNewsDeliveryService.......... 257
HenrykaJormakka,ToniJussila,KirsiValtari
(TechnicalResearchCenter,Finland)
AuthorIndex.................................................... 271