[...]...2 Intelligent agents for telecommunication environments and hosts Therefore, in Section 2, a categorisation of the area of security in the context of mobile agents is presented Section 3 concentrates on approaches to protect hosts from attacks by malicious agents, whereas Section 4 focuses on approaches to protect mobile agents from attacks by malicious hosts 2... applications 12 Intelligent agents for telecommunication environments The intense bidding for 3G licences, which occurred in the UK during April 2000, [CRAOO], shows further evidence of the anticipated commercial potential of WID's A good example of a current prototype device is the Symbian Quartz 3G platform [WUN 00] A projection for growth is illustrated in Figure 1, showing the number of WID's for the next... 18 Intelligent agents for telecommunication environments 4.3 Analysis From these results several conclusions can be drawn regarding the benefits of mobile agents in search operations The principal result is that mobile agents are more efficient in performing remote searches than a remote method call up to a particular size of data transfer, which is a function of the size of the remote database For. .. just such a niche for mobile agents REFERENCES [BIE 98] BIESZCZAD A., PAGUREK B., WHITE T., "Mobile Agents for Network Management", IEEE Communication Surveys, Vol 1, No 1, p 2-9, September 1998 [BRE 99] BREWINGTON B., GRAY R., MOIZUMI K., KOTZ D., CYBENKO G., Rus D., "Mobile agents for distributed information retrieval", In Matthias Klusch, Editor, Intelligent Information Agents, Chapter 15, p 355-395... Systems, Austria, 1996 22 Intelligent agents for telecommunication environments [WUN 00] WUNKER S., "Quartz Presentation to Developers" Conference and Exhibition in Santa Clara, California, February 2000, available at: http://www.epocworld.com/events/US2000/UStalksmenu.htm Chapter 3 Agents in telecommunication- based services Mihhail Matskin Department of Computer and Information Science, Norwegian... agent-based systems 24 Intelligent agents for telecommunication environments Development of agent technology is very much based on research in artificial intelligence and distributed computing However, attention and practical interest in agents was initiated by the development of network technology Thus networking is an essential source for developing interest in agents and it is a vehicle for them At the... memory, and communications means to agents Mobile agents consume these resources to different degrees The question of which consumption is acceptable for which agent, and which consumption is not, depends on criteria defined by the host These criteria may be defined in an explicit manner, or they may exist only implicitly 4 Intelligent agents for telecommunication environments 3.1.1.2 Denial-of-service... mobile agents may be applied to support applications in the mobile computing domain 3 Wireless applications of mobile agents Since the most frequently proposed application area for mobile agents has been portable computing systems [KOT 97], we need to review what features of mobile Agents: the future of intelligent communication 15 agents are of value in this context One example study using mobile agents. .. computer personal assistant/agent, because it represents the customer off-line and uses only a short time interval for connection to the customer In this case autonomy and pro-activity should play very important roles Intelligent abilities of such agents 26 Intelligent agents for telecommunication environments (or in other words decision-making abilities) may vary quite a lot from simple preprogrammed actions... mobile e-commerce service [FRA 00] Mobile agents can support such systems in the following ways: 16 Intelligent agents for telecommunication environments Allow asynchronous message transfer of trading requests A user can make a request to a mobile agent service via their mobile device The agent then transfers into the Internet and queries multiple online vendors for the required service or goods When . alt="" Intelligent Agents for Telecommunication Environments This page intentionally left blank INNOVATIUE TECHNOLOGY SERIES INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND NETWORKS Intelligent Agents for Telecommunication Environments edited . area of security for mobile agents, especially those focusing on the attacks between mobile agents 2 Intelligent agents for telecommunication environments and hosts. Therefore, in Section . Ltd Derived from Networking and Information Systems Journal, Intelligent Agents for Telecommunication Environments, Vol. 3, No. 3-4. Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of research