MASIF: The OMG mobile agent system interoperability facility

Milojicic, Dejan; Breugst, Markus; Busse, Ingo; Campbell, John R.; Covaci, Stefan; Friedman, Barry; Kosaka, Kazuya; Lange, Danny B.; Ono, Kenji; Oshima, Mitsuru; Tham, Cynthia; Virdhagriswaran, Sankar; White, J. W. C.

doi:10.1007/bf01324942

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“…A mobile agent is a program that executes autonomously on a set of network hosts on behalf of an individual or organization [16,17]. Mobile agents can bring computation wherever needed and minimize the network traffic, especially in wireless networks (expensive, slow, and unstable), without decreasing the performance of the system [33].…”

Section: Adus: Adaptive User Interface Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

Performance Analysis of an Adaptive User Interface System Based on Mobile Agents

Mitrović

Royo

Mena

2008

Engineering Interactive Systems

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Abstract. Adapting graphical user interfaces for various user devices is one of the most interesting topics in today's mobile computation. In this paper we present a system based on mobile agents that transparently adapts user interface specifications to the user device' capabilities and monitors user interaction. Specialized agents manage GUI specification according to the specific context and user preferences. We show how the user behavior can be monitored at runtime in a transparent way and how learning methods are applied to anticipate future user actions and to adapt the user interface accordingly. The feasibility and performance of our approach are shown by applying our approach to a nontrivial application and by performing tests with real users.

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Section: Adus: Adaptive User Interface Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

Performance Analysis of an Adaptive User Interface System Based on Mobile Agents

Mitrović

Royo

Mena

2008

Engineering Interactive Systems

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“…Grasshopper has been designed in conformance with the Object Management Group's Mobile Agent System Interoperability Facility (MASIF) [9]. Furthermore, it is a commercial product with extensive documentation and future development under way, therefore is more suitable for commercially oriented network management.…”

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Automated Management of IP Networks through Policy and Mobile Agents

Yang

Galis

Mota

et al. 2002

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract.With the magnificent expansion of network, both in the types of network elements and the software components to manage them, driven by the increasing requirement of different services, it is getting more imperative to seek a means to deploy the network management tasks and services in a fast, ubiquitous and automated way. Mobile agent technology (MAT) provides a promising means to achieve this goal with more flexibility and automation of managing network than those traditional client/server based distributed methods, such as CORBA. Mobile agents, as an enabling technology, can easily represent one of the roles involved in the network management; therefore have great potential to be widely used in network management. This paper proposes to use Policy-based Network Management (PBNM) as an application for MAT to facilitate network management products' development. PBNM, as a newly introduced but widely welcomed technology in the Internet world, can take over the overall management of hybrid network whereas MAT enables the flexible implementation of PBNM system. On the other hand, the agents usually have intelligence, which can be well guided by established policies from PBNM, which makes MAT and PBNM perfectly matched to each other. The work presented in this paper has been developed in the framework of the Europe Union (EU) sponsored IST Project MANTRIP. A commercially oriented testbed, which is fully based on mobile agent technology, has been set up, and a scenario for solving a practical network management challenge, i.e., interdomain IP Virtual Private Network, is implemented on this test-bed, which predicts a very promising commercial use of mobile agent in real world. Moreover, the policy-based network management system presented in this paper also covers some of the network management issues under investigation in the EU IST CONTEXT project. This policy and MAT based network management system intends to provide a ubiquitous network management system regardless of the underlying network resources, either wired network elements as the main scope of MANTRIP project or wireless network elements as the main stream of CONTEXT project.

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“…A mobile agent system consists primarily of mobile agents and platforms. An agent is a type of computer software that acts autonomously on behalf of a person or an organization [1].…”

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“…Furthermore, the study addresses the worst situation of agentside threats when the agents run in an untrusting environment or, more specifically, the agents are subject to attacks from malicious platforms. Because mobile agents frequently migrate among various hosts (platforms 1) ) due to their mobility, they run the risk of exposing themselves to untrusting environments more often than static agents. In such environments, the proposed forward-secure undetachable digital signature technique can provide the integrity and validity of business contracts, as well as safeguarding the confidentiality of the user's private signing key.…”

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Secure Mobile Agents in eCommerce with Forward-Secure Undetachable Digital Signatures

Shi

Zhao

Liu

2015

ETRI J

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We introduce the idea of a forward-secure undetachable digital signature (FS-UDS) in this paper, which enables mobile agents to generate undetachable digital signatures with forward security of the original signer's signing key. The definition and security notion of an FS-UDS scheme are given. Then, the construction of a concrete FS-UDS scheme is proposed; and the proof of security for the proposed scheme is also provided. In the proposed scheme, mobile agents need not carry the signing key when they generate digital signatures on behalf of the original signer, so the signing key will not be compromised. At the same time, the encrypted function is combined with the original signer's requirement; therefore, misuse of the signing algorithm can be prevented. Furthermore, in the case where a hacker has accessed the signing key of the original signer, he/she is not able to forge a signature for any time period prior to when the key was obtained.

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MASIF: The OMG mobile agent system interoperability facility

Cited by 98 publications

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Performance Analysis of an Adaptive User Interface System Based on Mobile Agents

Performance Analysis of an Adaptive User Interface System Based on Mobile Agents

Automated Management of IP Networks through Policy and Mobile Agents

Secure Mobile Agents in eCommerce with Forward-Secure Undetachable Digital Signatures

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