DIAMOnDS - DIstributed Agents for MObile & Dynamic Services

Distributed Services Architecture with support for mobile agents between services, offer significantly improved communication and computational flexibility. The uses of agents allow execution of complex operations that involve large amounts of data to be processed effectively using distributed resources. The prototype system Distributed Agents for Mobile and Dynamic Services (DIAMOnDS), allows a service to send agents on its behalf, to other services, to perform data manipulation and processing. Agents have been implemented as mobile services that are discovered using the Jini Lookup mechanism and used by other services for task management and communication. Agents provide proxies for interaction with other services as well as specific GUI to monitor and control the agent activity. Thus agents acting on behalf of one service cooperate with other services to carry out a job, providing inter-operation of loosely coupled services in a semi-autonomous way. Remote file system access functionality has been incorporated by the agent framework and allows services to dynamically share and browse the file system resources of hosts, running the services. Generic database access functionality has been implemented in the mobile agent framework that allows performing complex data mining and processing operations efficiently in distributed system. A basic data searching agent is also implemented that performs a query based search in a file system. The testing of the framework was carried out on WAN by moving Connectivity Test agents between AgentStations in CERN, Switzerland and NUST, Pakistan.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figures, CHEP03, La Jolla, California, March 24-28, 200

Information Retrieval Using Mobile Agent (Aglet)

This project will present 3 objective in HPS (Hand Phone System) that help user to search for hand phone detail information by: [1] Brand such as Nokia, Samsung, and Sony Ericsson. [2] Version of the hand phone (model). [3] Price: User can input the price range. Instead of having to surf endlessly through the WWW (World Wide Web) and digesting huge amounts of possibly untrustworthy information, personalized mobile agents autonomously gather information about the item user want to see. Once they have found ihe destination or server (the piece ofsoftware): the agent can send the result back to the user. This project will be focusing on Information Retrieval and will be using mobile agent platform which is aglets, Java runtime, Jdkl.0.5_08, and Microsoft VisualJ++ 6.0 to design the GUI that build using Applet. This project will undergo 5stages which are; plan the hardware or software required for the project, then analyze and get the Product Requirement, next is design the process of implementing HPS System, implement the project by using mobile agent platform - aglets that involves programming activity and last is to test the product to ensure the product successfully completed and testify and fulfill the objectives of this project. The result and discussion about the system produced will highlights how the system works generally. Some other interested formula and idea from other project's discussion will also be used to further doing this project. As a conclusion, is project is aimed to create a simple HPS system using mobile agent technology and need to be improved in many aspects and that can be the recommendation for future work for expansion and continuation

E-AUCTION SYSTEM USING MOBILE AGENT TECHNOLOGY

Mobile agent technology has known an important rise these last years. This project will present 3 objectives in constructing an E-Auction system which are; to study on how mobile agent system is said to be useful to reduce communication cost in e-auction system as well as to accept the use of limited local resources, and to have an asynchronous computing. Instead of having to surf endlessly through the WWW (World Wide Web) and digesting huge amounts of possibly untrustworthy information, personalized mobile agents autonomously gather information about the item user want to buy. Once they have found the destination or server, the piece of software or the latest hit single which user looking for, the agent can send the result of the best requested item on behalf of the user. This project will be focusing on E-Auction business on PDA's and will be using mobile agent platform which is aglets, Java runtime, and J2sdkl.4.1_03. This project will undergo 5 stages which are; plan the hardware or software required for the project, then analyze and get Product Requirement, next is design the process of implementing PDA's E-Auction System, implement the project by using mobile agent platform - aglets that involves programming activity and last is to test the product to ensure the product successfully completed and satisfy and fulfill the objectives of this project. The result and discussion about the system produced will highlights how the system works generally .Some other interested formula and idea from other project's discussion will also be used to further doing this project. As a conclusion, this project is aimed to create a simple E-Auction system using mobile agent technology and need to be improved in many aspects and that can be the recommendation for future work for expansion and continuation

Mobile object location discovery in unpredictable environments

Emerging mobile and ubiquitous computing environments present hard challenges to software engineering. The use of mobile code has been suggested as a natural fit for simplifing software development for these environments. However, the task of discovering mobile code location becomes a problem in unpredictable environments when using existing strategies, designed with fixed and relatively stable networks in mind. This paper introduces AMOS, a mobile code platform augmented with a structured overlay network. We demonstrate how the location discovery strategy of AMOS has better reliability and scalability properties than existing approaches, with minimal communication overhead. Finally, we demonstrate how AMOS can provide autonomous distribution of effort fairly throughout a network using probabilistic methods that requires no global knowledge of host capabilities

Requirements of a middleware for managing a large, heterogeneous programmable network

Programmable networking is an increasingly popular area of research in both industry and academia. Although most programmable network research projects seem to focus on the router architecture rather than on issues relating to the management of programmable networks, there are numerous research groups that have incorporated management middleware into the programmable network router software. However, none seem to be concerned with the effective management of a large heterogeneous programmable network. The requirements of such a middleware are outlined in this paper. There are a number of fundamental middleware principles that are addressed in this paper; these include management paradigms, configuration delivery, scalability and transactions. Security, fault tolerance and usability are also examined—although these are not essential parts of the middleware, they must be addressed if the programmable network management middleware is to be accepted by industry and adopted by other research projects

Continuous Audit Agent System

Recently, the provision of the real-time accounting reports over the Internet for the public corporation became popular. In response to this change on the service requirement, audit professionals considered to provide “continuous auditing” to diminish or minimize the lag time of the provision of an audit opinion behind the occurrence of business events. Though has been proposed the concept at 80’s, the provided implementation models of continuous auditing are still far beyond feasible. Major obstacles to hinder wide adoption in industry lie on two issues. (1) The development of continuous auditing system should be independent to the development of client’s information system. (2) The audit procedures that could be implemented by agent base automatic audit system should not be limited to the analysis on corporation internal data. In this paper, an agent base continuous auditing model and system is proposed to tackle these two major concerns. Several kinds of mobile agents are initiated by an audit agency system to simulate the behaviors of a human auditor on the audit procedures to collect various audit evidences. Each kind of mobile agent simulates a specific kind of audit procedure and acts on behalf of a human auditor to access and to inspect audit-related information hosted in the distributed information source