This paper proposes a simple framework for building 'virtual networking agents'; programs that can communicate with users and collect information through the internet. T...
An outstanding security problem in mobile agent systems is resource access control, or authorization in its broader sense. In this paper we present an authorization framework for m...
We present OKEANOS, a distributed service-based agent framework implemented in Java, in which agents can act autonomously and make use of stationary services. Each agent's beh...
Ralf-Dieter Schimkat, Wolfgang Blochinger, Carsten...
In multi-agent communities, trust is required when agents hold different beliefs or conflicting goals. We present a framework for decomposing agent reputation into competence—...
This paper presents SAgent, a general-purpose mobile agent security framework that is designed to protect the computations of mobile agent applications in potentially hostile envi...