1. Guest editorial: Mobile software agents

   • Kurt Rothermel

   EditorialNotes Pages: 47 - 48

2. Introduction to mobile agents

   • Danny B. Lange
   • Mitsuru Oshima

   EditorialNotes Pages: 49 - 56

3. Mobile agent applicability

   • Dag Johansen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 57 - 67

4. Integrating mobile agents into the mobile middleware

   • Ernö Kovacs
   • Klaus Röhrle
   • Matthias Reich

   OriginalPaper Pages: 68 - 74

5. Designing a videoconference system for active networks

   • Mario Baldi
   • Gian Pietro Picco
   • Fulvio Risso

   OriginalPaper Pages: 75 - 84

6. Mobile agents and intellectual property protection

   • Stephane G. Belmon
   • Bennet S. Yee

   OriginalPaper Pages: 85 - 91

7. Protecting the computation results of free-roaming agents

   • G. Karjoth
   • N. Asokan
   • C. Gülcü

   OriginalPaper Pages: 92 - 99

8. The shadow approach: An orphan detection protocol for mobile agents

   • Joachim Baumann
   • Kurt Rothermel

   OriginalPaper Pages: 100 - 108

9. Transparent migration of Java-based mobile agents: Capturing and re-establishing the state of Java programs

   • Stefan Fünfrocken

   OriginalPaper Pages: 109 - 116

10. MASIF: The OMG mobile agent system interoperability facility

    • Dejan Milojicic
    • Markus Breugst
    • Jim White

    OriginalPaper Pages: 117 - 129