Concepts and architecture of a security-centric mobile agent server

Proceedings - 5th International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems, ISADS 2001

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 435-442

  Roth, V ^a   Jalali Sohi, M ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER IGD   (Germany)

Author keywords

autonomous agents; distributed applications; e commerce; malicious host; mobile agent security

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMMERCE; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; MOBILE COMMERCE; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE APPLICATIONS; MALICIOUS HOST; MOBILE AGENT SECURITY; MOBILE AGENT SERVERS; MOBILE SOFTWARE AGENTS; RUNTIME ENVIRONMENTS; SELECTIVE ENCRYPTION;

MOBILE AGENTS;

EID: 84964039818     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISADS.2001.917449     Document Type: Conference Paper

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