Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications Provides an overview of how the mobile code can be used in networking with the aim of developing further intelligent information retrieval, network and mobility management, and network services.
Proceedings of the Second International Workshop, MATA, on Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications, held in Paris, France, September 18-20, 2000. Major paper topics included network management, Ad-hoc networks and applications, and active networks.
This publication is concerned with mobile agents for telecommunication applications. Papers have been selected from those presented during MATA'00 in Paris, the MATA reviewers having reviewed this second version of the papers presented here.
Mobile agents refer to self-contained and identifiable computer programs that can move within the network and can act on behalf of the user or another entity. Most current research work on the mobile agent paradigm has two general goals: reduction of network traffic and asynchronous interaction. These two goals stem directly from the desire to reduce information overload and to efficiently use network resources.
There are certainly many motivations for the use of a mobile agent paradigm. However, intelligent information retrieval, network and mobility management, and network services are currently the three most cited application targets for a mobile agent system.
We provide in this publication an overview of how mobile codes could be used in networking. A huge field of application is now open and a research community really exists. We have tried here to illustrate this emerging application domain of mobile agents and mobile code.
