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New paradigms can popularize old technologies. A new \standalone" paradigm, the electronic desktop, popularized the personal computer. A new \connected" paradigm, the web browser, popularized the Internet. Another new paradigm, the mobile agent, may further popularize the Internet by giving people greater access to it with less eort. MobileAgentParadigm The mobile agent paradigm integrates a network of computers in a novel way designed to simplify the development of network applications. To an application developer the computers appear to form an electronic world of places occupied by agents. Each agent or place in the electronic world has the authority of an individual or an organization in the physical world. The authority can be established, for example, cryptographically. A mobile agent can travel from one place to another subject to the des- nation place’s approval. The source and destination places can be in the same computer or in di erent computers. In either case,the agentinitiates the trip by executing a \go" instruction which takes as an argument the name or address of the destination place. The next instruction in the agent’s program is executed in the destination place, rather than in the source place. Thus, in a sense, the mobile agent paradigm reduces networking to a program instruction. A mobile agent can interact programmatically with the places it visits and, if the other agents approve, with the other agents it encounters in those places.
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Active Content and Security
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mobile Agents and Security
Editors: Giovanni Vigna
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-68671-1
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1998
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-64792-8Published: 29 June 1998
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-68671-2Published: 20 May 2003
Series ISSN: 0302-9743
Series E-ISSN: 1611-3349
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 257
Topics: Cryptology, Operating Systems, Computer Communication Networks, Artificial Intelligence, Management of Computing and Information Systems