Symposium Program

Conference Schedule

Wednesday, September 13
08:30	Registration opens
09:00	Tutorial T1: Mobile Agents	Tutorial T2: Coordination
12:30	Lunch
13:30	Opening Address: Gerhard Schmitt, ETH Zurich ETH and ETH World
14:00	Invited Talk: Colin Harrison, IBM Data or Computation - Which Should We Move?
14:45	Coffee Break
15:15	Session 1: Migration (Chair: David Kotz)
	Niranjan Suri, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Maggie R. Breedy, Paul T. Groth, Gregory A. Hill Strong Mobility and Fine-Grained Resource Control in NOMADS
	Takahiro Sakamoto, Tatsurou Sekiguchi, Akinori Yonezawa Bytecode Transformation for Portable Thread Migration in Java
	Eddy Truyen, Bert Robben, Bart Vanhaute, Tim Coninx, Wouter Joosen Portable Support for Transparent Thread Migration in Java
16:45	Short Break
17:00	Session 2: Security Issues of Mobile Agents (Chair: Christian Tschudin)
	Günter Karjoth Secure Mobile Agent-Based Merchant Brokering in Distributed Marketplaces
	Henning Pagnia, Holger Vogt, Felix C. Gaertner, Uwe G. Wilhelm Solving Fair Exchange with Mobile Agents
18:00
Thursday, September 14
08:30	Registration opens
09:00	Invited Talk: Boi Faltings, EPFL Making Agents Intelligent
10:00	Coffee Break
10:30	Session 3: Systems and Applications (Chair: Kurt Rothermel)
	Francisco Duran, Steven Eker, Patrick Lincoln, Jose Meseguer Principles of Mobile Maude
	Fabio Kon, Binny Gill, Manish Anand, Roy H. Campbell, M. Dennis Mickunas Secure Dynamic Reconfiguration of Scalable CORBA Systems with Mobile Agents
	Ladislau Boloni, Kyungkoo Jun, Krzysztof Palacz, Radu Sion, Dan Marinescu The Bond Agent System and Applications
12:00	Lunch
13:00	Session 4: Mobile Agent Applications (Chair: Gian Pietro Picco)
	Ichiro Satoh MobiDoc: A Framework for Building Mobile Compound Documents from Hierarchical Mobile Agents
	Anand Tripathi, Tanvir Ahmed, Vineet Kakani, Shrematii Jaman Distributed Collaborations using Network Mobile Agents
	Steven Willmott, Boi Faltings Using Adaptation and Organisational Knowledge to Coordinate Mobile Agents
14:30	Coffee Break
15:00	Session 5: Applications of Multi Agent Systems (Chair: Geoff Arnold)
	Thomas Schetter, Mark Campbell, Derek Surka TeamAgent for Multiple Agent-based Satellite Constellations (TechSat21)
	Paul Davidsson, Magnus Boman Saving Energy and Providing Value Added Services in Intelligent Buildings: A MAS Approach
	Steffen Rothkugel, Peter Sturm CarPAcities: Distributed Car Pool Agencies in Mobile Networks
16:30	Short Break
16:45	Poster Sessions
19:00	Symposium Banquet
23:00
Friday, September 15
08:30	Registration opens
09:00	Session 6: Communication and Mobility Control (Chair: Radu Popescu-Zeletin)
	Takahiro Kawamura, Sam Joseph, Akihiko Ohsuga, Shinichi Honiden Qualitative Evaluation of Pairwise Interaction between Agents
	Mudumbai Ranganathan, Marc Bednarek, Doug Montgomery A Reliable Message Delivery Protocol For Mobile Agents
	Hovav Gazit, Israel Ben-Shaul, Ophir Holder Monitoring-Based Dynamic Relocation of Components in FarGo
10:30	Coffee Break
11:00	Session 7: Cooperation and Interaction (Chair: Jeff Bradshaw)
	Monique Calisti, Boi Faltings Agent-Based Negotiations for Multi-Provider Interactions
	Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, Jean-Luc Koning Modeling Soccer-Robots Strategies Through Interaction Protocols
	Marja Phipps, Jay Mork, Mark McSherry Using Intelligent Agents and a Personal Knowledge Management Application
12:30	Lunch
13:30	Tutorial T3: Security Services	Tutorial T4: Introduction to Jini
17:00

List of accepted posters

• Mark Allen, Geof Staniford, and A. Taleb-Bendiab
  Mobile Agent: Enriching Document Management and Distribution for Mobile Design Work
• Ilies Alouini and Peter Van Roy
  Fault-Tolerant Mobile Agents in Mozart
• Tadashi Araragi
  A Knowledge-based Internet Agent System with a Formal Verification Facility
• Florian Baumgartner and Torsten Braun
  Active Networking, QoS and Virtual Routers
• Peter Braun, Christian Erfurth, and Wilhelm Rossak
  Experiences with State-of-the-Art Migration Strategies
• Bruno Dillenseger
  MobiliTools: A Toolbox for Agent Mobility and Interoperability Based on OMG Standards
• Manuel Günter and Torsten Braun
  Internet Service Delivery Control with Mobile Agents
• Goran Kimovski, Danco Davcev, and Vladimir Trajkovic
  Agent-based Virtual Laboratory
• Paulo Jorge Marques, Luís Moura Silva, and João Gabriel Silva
  Application Centric Mobile Agent Systems: Bringing the Focus Back to the Applications
• Cecilia Mascolo, Wolfgang Emmerich, and Anthony Finkelstein
  Xmile: An Incremental Code Mobility System based on XML Technologies
• Patrik Mihailescu, Elizabeth A. Kendall, and Yuliang Zheng
  Mobile Agent Platform for Mobile Devices
• Otto Wittner and Bjarne E. Helvik
  Simulating Mobile Agent Based Network Management using Network Simulator

Invited Speakers

Data or Computation - Which Should We Move?

Colin Harrison
Director of Global Services Research
IBM T J Watson Research Center
Yorktown Heights, NY 10598

Abstract: The evolution of system architectures has been shaped by the varying evolutions of the costs of system operations. That is: the cost of computation, the cost of storage, the cost of communication, and the cost of operational management. In recent years the costs of computation and storage have continued to drop exponentially (at least). Communication costs have traditionally remained high relative to other costs and this has had a profound influence on the structure of system architectures, favouring centralized information systems with remote clients. But these costs too are in steep decline and in recent years end-to-end latencies in the Internet have approached values that in client-server days could only be achieved within campus networks. These trends will change this architectural balance, making much more attractive the widespread distribution of application function - even function requiring significant bandwidth. The current impetus towards exploring this model of computation is the desire to create dynamic business architectures in which components or entire business processes are delivered as remote network services. In this approach the business process is modeled as a form of workflow and the computation proceeds by moving the business data successively through several remote transaction systems. We contrast this approach with that of mobile agents in which the transaction itself moves through the network and consider why the mobile agent approach is not being adopted for dynamic business architectures.

About the Speaker: Colin Harrison is Director of Global Services Research at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in New York. Following his thesis work in materials science at Imperial College, London, he spent several years at CERN developing the real-time control system for the SPS accelarator. He then returned to EMI Central Research Laboratories in London, and lead the development of the world's first clinically-useful MRI system. He joined IBM in San Jose and has enjoyed a career leading from magnetics, to medical imaging, parallel computing, mobile networking, intelligent agents, and telecommunications services. He now has broad responsibility for research applied to IBM's services businesses.

Making Agents Intelligent

Boi Faltings
Director of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)
1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

Abstract: Most of us believe that agents will lead to flexible and robust software systems. I argue that to realize this dream for practically interesting problems, agents will need to have intelligence in the form of explicit rational behavior. I will show major issues with realizing such behavior and what the right technologies for addressing them might be.

About the Speaker: Boi Faltings is the director of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the Swiss Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland (EPFL). He obtained his undergraduate degree at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETH) in 1983 and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Illinois, Urbana, in 1987. From 1987 to 1993, he has been professeur extraordinaire at the EPFL. Since 1993, he is full professor and has served as head of the computer science department from 1996-1998.

Opening Address

Gerhard Schmitt
Vice President Planning and Logistics, ETH Zurich

Gerhard Schmitt, Vice President of ETH Zurich, will formally open the Symposium. Gerhard Schmitt is Professor of Architecture and Computer Aided Architectural Design at ETH Zurich. His research encompasses the architectural design of the information territory, and he is responsible for "ETH World", the strategic ETH virtual campus project.