Contents

• • Acknowledgements
  • Abstract
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Introduction
  • Motivation
  • Mobile Agents
    • Agents
    • Mobility
    • Advantages of Mobile Agents
    • Java for Mobile Agents
    • Related Work
      • Java based Systems
      • Other Systems
      • Standard Organizations
  • MASIF
    • Need of a Standard
    • Content
      • MAFAgentSystem
      • MAFFinder
    • Future Work
• The former TAgents Platform
  • Design and Structure
    • System
      • Communication
      • Creating a TAgent
    • TAgents
    • TAgentSys
  • Limitations of the old Platform
    • Communication
    • Moving an Agent
    • Standards
    • Agents and System Agents
• The new Platform
  • Requirements
    • General Targets
  • Design and Implementation
    • Design
      • Resource Access
      • Naming Conventions
      • Helper Classes
    • Packages
    • System
      • Configuration
      • AgentSystemID
      • Hashes
      • MASIF Classes
      • AgentSystem Class
    • System Agents
      • Communication Services
      • RMI Communication Service
      • Plain Socket (PLS) Communication Service
      • MAFFinder Service
      • Admin System Agents
    • Agents
      • AgentIFace
      • Structure of an Agent
      • Agent Class
  • Users Guide
    • Creating an Agent
      • Extending the basic Agent
      • Command Queue
      • Resource Access
      • Helper
      • Example Agent
    • Creating a System Agent
      • Extending the basic SysAgent
      • SysAgentHelper
      • Service Proxies
• Conclusion and Future Work
  • Future Work
    • Security
    • MASIF
    • Intelligent Agents
    • Improvements of the Platform
  • Conclusion
• Appendix
  • Examples
    • Example Configuration File
    • Example Agent
• Bibliography
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