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A Mobile Agents Platform: Architecture, Mobility and Security Elements

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This paper presents a mobile agents platform called SyMPA, compliant with the specifications of the MASIF standard from the OMG, that supports both stationary and mobile agents implemented using the high-level agent-oriented programming language CLAIM. Agents designed thanks to CLAIM are endowed with cognitive capabilities, are able to communicate with other agents and are mobile. The primitives of mobility are inspired from the ambient calculus. The paper is focused on SyMPA’s architecture, mobility, implementation and security elements.

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    Alexandru Suna & Amal El Fallah-Seghrouchni

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Durham, DH1 3LE, Durham, UK

    Rafael H. Bordini

  2. Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80.089, 3508, Utrecht, TB, The Netherlands

    Mehdi Dastani

  3. Clausthal University of Technology, Julius-Albert-Str. 4, 38678, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany

    Jürgen Dix

  4. Laboratoire Informatique de Paris 6, 104 avenue du Président Kennedy, 75016, Paris, France

    Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni

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Suna, A., El Fallah-Seghrouchni, A. (2005). A Mobile Agents Platform: Architecture, Mobility and Security Elements. In: Bordini, R.H., Dastani, M., Dix, J., El Fallah Seghrouchni, A. (eds) Programming Multi-Agent Systems. ProMAS 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3346. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-32260-3_7

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