Although mobile agents are a promising technology, the large-scale deployment of agents and the existence of hosts running agencies will not happen until proper security mechanism...
In order for mobile agents to be accepted as a basic technology for enabling electronic commerce, proper security mechanisms must be developed. Hosts must be protected from malici...
The paradigm of mobile agents offers a powerful and flexible ity to develop distributed applications on a high-level of abstraction. One of the most interesting tasks for mobile ag...
Hartmut Vogler, Marie-Luise Moschgath, Thomas Kunk...
In this paper, a Shopping Information Agent System (SIAS) is built based on mobile agent technology. It sends out agents to di erent hosts in an electronic marketplace. The agents ...
Anthony H. W. Chan, Caris K. M. Wong, Tsz Yeung Wo...
This paper introduces a mechanism for establishing policies for electronic commerce in a uni ed and secure manner. A commercial policy can be viewed as the embodiment of a contrac...