MAIN TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. MAIN TABLE OF CONTENTS • Definition: SOFTWARE AGENT • HOW MANY TYPES OF AGENT? • DEFINITION OF MOBILE AGENT: • SOFTWARE AGENTS PROPERTIES, • WORKING OF MOBILE AGENTS • TYPICAL MOBILE AGENT SECENARIO • LIFE CYCLE OF A MOBILE AGENT • ARCHITECTURE OF MOBILE AGENT • MOBILE AGENT – OPERATIONS • PROCESS MIGRATION REQUIREMENTS • OTHER COMPETING TECHNOLOGIES • APPLICATION OF MOBILE AGENTS • ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF MOBILE AGENTS • REASON FOR MOBILE AGENTS • PLATFORMS • MULTIPARTY EVENT SCHEDULING CASE STUDY

2. MAIN TABLE OF CONTENTS • Definition: SOFTWARE AGENT • HOW MANY TYPES OF AGENT? • DEFINITION OF MOBILE AGENT: • SOFTWARE AGENTS PROPERTIES, • WORKING OF MOBILE AGENTS • TYPICAL MOBILE AGENT SECENARIO • LIFE CYCLE OF A MOBILE AGENT • ARCHITECTURE OF MOBILE AGENT • MOBILE AGENT – OPERATIONS • PROCESS MIGRATION REQUIREMENTS • OTHER COMPETING TECHNOLOGIES • APPLICATION OF MOBILE AGENTS • ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF MOBILE AGENTS • REASON FOR MOBILE AGENTS • PLATFORMS • MULTIPARTY EVENT SCHEDULING TABLE OF CONTENTS OF MY SEMINAR • IntroductionSub-units of mobile agent Architecture PICO and it’s composition MICRO and it’s composition MACRO and it’s compositionMobile agent – operations a) Registration b) Communication c) Calling virtual society (out of scope)Process Migration requirementsOther competing TechnologiesApplication of Mobile AgentsAdvantages and disadvantages of MA

3. ARCHITECTURE OF MOBILE AGENT • We proposed a model to characterize the mobile agent system architecture • Mobile Agent virtual society was composed within three cells • Pico cell • Micro cell • Macro cell • The Pico cell represented the client mobile agent • The Micro cell constituted by at least one client mobile agents (Pico cells) and one server agent • Several Micro cells construct a Macro cell

4. PICO CELL(CLIENT AGENT) Consists of • Client profiles • Object function loader • Role setting components selector

5. MICRO CELL CONSISTS OF • Agent Profiles/Database, • Server Agent • Web Server Agent Profile and Database consists of • User personal environment setting information • User Log Files • User personal information • User submitting results

6. SERVER AGENT CONSISTS OF • Verification components • Communication components • Management components • Roles setting objects (agent characteristics) Provider

7. A MICRO CELL

8. A MACRO CELL

9. SNAPSHOT

10. ROLE FUNCTION

11. MOBILE AGENT OPERATION • Registration • Communication • Calling virtual society (Multimedia Macro Virtual Society (MMVS) sub-systems)

12. REGISTRATION OPERATING PHASE

13. COMMUNICATION PHASE

14. AGENT’S ROLE SETTING PHASE

15. PROCESS MIGRATION REQURIMENTS • Common execution language • Process persistence • Communication mechanism between agent hosts • Security to protect agents and agent hosts OTHER COMPETING TECHNOLOGIES • Message passing systems • Remote Method Invocation (RMI) • Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA)

16. APPLICATIONS OF MOBILE AGENTS • Parallel Computing • Data Collection • E-commerce • Mobile Computing:

17. ADVANTAGES OF USING MOBILE AGENTS • Protocol Encapsulation • Asynchronous and Autonomous Execution • Fault Tolerance DISADVANTAGES OF MOBILE AGENTS • security risk involved in using mobile agents • A malicious mobile agent can damage a host • A malicious host can tamper with the functioning of the mobile agent