Preface Volume 63

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AbstractThis volume contains the Proceedings of the First Workshop on Security of Mobile Multiagent Systems (SEMAS'2001). The Workshop was held in Montreal, Canada on May 29, 2001, as satellite event to the 5th International Conference on Autonomous Agents 2001The far reaching influence of the Internet has resulted in an increased interest in agent technologies, which are poised to play a key role in the implementation of successful Internet and WWW-based applications in the future. While there is still considerable hype concerning agent technologies, there is also an increasing awareness of the problems involved. Although there is a large body of work on cryptographic techniques that provide basic building-blocks to solve specific security problems, relatively little work has been done in investigating security in the multiagent system context. The introduction of mobile software agents significantly increases the risks involved in Internet and WWW-based applications. The aim of this workshop was to bring together people from the two relevant research fields, software security and agent-oriented programming. This volume covers actual research papers on security protocols and security policies to enforce security of mobile or multiagent systems but also introduces ideas how to use mobile agents to ensure security of a distributed system.The papers in this volume were reviewed by the program committee consisting, besides editor, of Sahin Albayrak(Technical University Berlin)David Basin(Department of Computer Science, University of Freiburg)Ciaran Bryce(University of Geneve)Hans-Juergen Buerckert(German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, DFKI)Guenther Karjoth(IBM Research Zuerich)Luc Moreau(Department of Computer Science, University of Southhampton)Volker Roth(Fraunhofer Gesellschaft IGD, Darmstadt)Helmut Schwigon(Bundesamt fuer Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik, BonnVipin Swarup(The MITRE Corp., Boston)Christian Tschudin(Uppsala University)Jan Vitek(Purdue University)This volume will be published as volume 63 in the series Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS). This series is published electronically through the facilities of Elsevier Science B.V. and its auspices. The volumes in the ENTCS series can be accessed at the URL http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/entcsWe are very grateful to the following persons, whose help has been crucial for the success of CMCS'2000: Adele E. Howe, for her help with the organization of the Workshop as satellite event of AA'2001 and Mike Mislove, one of the Managing Editors of the ENTCS series, for his assistance with the use of the ENTCS style files.December 15, 2001 Dieter Hutte