Mobile Agents: Second International Workshop, Ma'98, Stuttgart, Germany, September 9-11, 1998 (Paperback, 1998)

Present and future trends of mobile agent technology.- The shadow approach: An orphan detection protocol for mobile agents.- An approach for providing mobile agent fault tolerance.- Transparent migration of Java-based mobile agents.- Infrastructure for mobile agents: Requirements and design.- MASIF The OMG mobile agent system interoperability facility.- Automatic state capture of self-migrating computations in Messengers.- Mobile agent applicability.- An agent based application for personalized vehicular traffic management.- Stationary vs. mobile user agents in future mobile telecommunication networks.- Integrating mobile agents into the mobile middleware.- A Mobile Object Workbench.- An overview of AgentSpace: A next-generation mobile agent system.- ?Code: A lightweight and flexible mobile code toolkit.- Mobile agents and intellectual property protection.- Ensuring the integrity of agent-based computations by short proofs.- Protecting the computation results of free-roaming agents.- Wide-area languages.- Agent-user communications: Requests, results, interaction.- A plug-in architecture providing dynamic negotiation capabilities for mobile agents.- Reactive tuple spaces for mobile agent coordination.- Enabling a Mobile Network Manager (MNM) through mobile agents.- Scalable service deployment using mobile agents.- Designing a videoconference system for active networks.