This paper presents a system called AgentSalon, which facilitates face-to-face knowledge exchange and discussion by people having shared interests, in museums, schools, offices, a...
The large amount of information that is spread over the Internet is an important resource for all people but also introduces some issues that must be faced. The dynamism and the un...
Sonia Bergamaschi, Giacomo Cabri, Francesco Guerra...
Although open-source software development has virtues, there is reason to believe that the approach would not have a significant effect on the security of today’s systems. The ...
Mobile agents are software entities consisting of code, data and state that can migrate autonomously from host to host executing their code. Unfortunately, security issues restrict...
We argue that mutable programs are an important class of future applications. The field of software agents is an important beneficiary of mutability. We evaluate existing mutabl...