Itinerant Agents for Mobile Computing

Chess, David M.; Grosof, Benjamin N.; Harrison, Colin; Levine, David; Parris, Colin; Tsudik, Gene

doi:10.1109/comst.2000.5340729

Cited by 57 publications

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“…The user launches the agent which migrates from site to site in order to find the best price. An overview of this paradigm -along with associated security issues -is given in [11]. However, no practical solutions were proposed.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Privacy-Preserving Querying in Sensor Networks

Cristofaro

Ding

Tsudik

2009

2009 Proceedings of 18th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks

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Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) provide sensing and monitoring services by means of many tiny autonomous devices equipped with wireless radio transceivers. With largescale WSNs being deployed on a long-term basis, not only security but also privacy issues must be taken into account. Furthermore, when network operators offer on-demand access to sensor measurements to their clients, query mechanisms should ideally leak neither client interests nor query patterns.In this paper, we present a privacy-preserving WSN query mechanism that uses standard cryptographic techniques. Besides preventing unauthorized entities from accessing sensor readings, it minimizes leakage of (potentially sensitive) information about users' query targets and patterns.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Privacy-Preserving Querying in Sensor Networks

Cristofaro

Ding

Tsudik

2009

2009 Proceedings of 18th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks

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“…Indeed, there is now a plethora of different labels for agents ranging from the generic autonomous agents [7], software agents [8], and intelligent agents [9] to the more specific interface agents [10], virtual agents [11], information agents [12], mobile agents [13,14], and so on. The diverse range of applications for which agents are being touted include operating systems interfaces [15], processing satellite imaging data [16], electricity distribution management [17], air-traffic control [18] business process management [19], electronic commerce [20] and computer games [21], to name a few.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The difficulty with this approach of characterising agents through identifying their properties is exemplified by considering mobile agents [13,14], which are quite distinct and identifiable in the focus on movement of code between host machines. Here, the key characteristic is precisely this mobility, and indeed mobility has been regarded by some as an intrinsic agent property as noted earlier.…”

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A Conceptual Framework for Agent Definition and Development

Lück

d’Inverno

2001

The Computer Journal

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The use of agents of many different kinds in a variety of fields of computer science and artificial intelligence is increasing rapidly and is due, in part, to their wide applicability. The richness of the agent metaphor that leads to many different uses of the term is, however, both a strength and a weakness: its strength lies in the fact that it can be applied in very many different ways in many situations for different purposes; the weakness is that the term agent is now used so frequently that there is no commonly accepted notion of what it is that constitutes an agent. This paper addresses this issue by applying formal methods to provide a defining framework for agent systems. The Z specification language is used to provide an accessible and unified formal account of agent systems, allowing us to escape from the terminological chaos that surrounds agents. In particular, the framework precisely and unambiguously provides meanings for common concepts and terms, enables alternative models of particular classes of system to be described within it, and provides a foundation for subsequent development of increasingly more refined concepts.

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“…More recently, an agent has been seen as a mobile software entity that visits remote locations to discover whatever may be of interest to it7. Again, mobile agents do not rely on their ability to communicate with other similar agents, but rather on their ability to roam wide area networks.…”

Section: Software Agentsmentioning

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Open standards for interoperating agent‐based systems

Dale

Mamdani

2001

Software Focus

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This paper provides an overview of the Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents (FIPA) standardisation effort in the area of specifying standards for heterogeneous, interoperating agent‐based systems. JONATHAN DALE and EBRAHIM MAMDANI describe the types of software agents which are of interest to FIPA, the methods by which FIPA members collaborate and produce specifications and also descriptions of the specifications that FIPA has produced. They also list the available implementations of FIPA specifications and applications that use these implementations, as well as the current and future work of FIPA. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Itinerant Agents for Mobile Computing

Cited by 57 publications

References 7 publications

Privacy-Preserving Querying in Sensor Networks

Privacy-Preserving Querying in Sensor Networks

A Conceptual Framework for Agent Definition and Development

Open standards for interoperating agent‐based systems

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