MOBILE
AGENTS
Monash
University academics and students working with me in this area include Seng
Wai Loke, Shonali Krishnaswamy, Maria Indrawan, David Squire, Glenn Jayaputera,
Oshadi Alahakoon, Amir Padovitz, John Page, Lito Cruz, Martin Pirotta, Dennis
Pratistha.
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ARC Linkage Project
(LP0211384, 2002-2004, 2 APA(I) PhD scholars, Project leader)
e-Hermes: Context-rich mobile agent
technology to support information needs of financial institutions |
How
do we achieve flexibility and efficiency of financial services
in electronic commerce environment using mobile software agents?
To address this question the project will extend a system architecture
based on mobile agents, which retrieve, pre-process and deliver
relevant information to potentially mobile users. Two major components
– information processor and agent mission processor - will
be researched and developed by two PhD scholars to be supported
by this application. The project results could be commercialised
by the industry partner. The project is innovative in that it
considers the emerging agent paradigm as an integrated distributed
system in the e-commerce environment. More
Project
PhD scholars are Glenn Jayaputera and Oshadi Alahakoon |
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Hewlett-Packard(HP)
PhD Endowment (2003-2005, 1 PhD scholar(TBA), Project leader)
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ContextExplorers: mobile agents for run-time context
discovery, validation and verification |
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software agents represent one of strategic areas of pervasive computing
that promise solutions to some real world problems and enable “anytime,
anywhere, with any device” access to digital information and
services. This project will investigate and develop methods and
tools that will generate mobile software agents and inject them
into the network. These agents will be capable of discovering and
sensing the current context in which a target pervasive computing
system is running, validating and verifying the context attributes
like location via direct and indirect techniques and then communicating
the discovered and verified context back to the target application.
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| ADIS: Adaptive Distributed Information
Services – collaborative project with Norwegian University
of Science and Technology (NTNU, Trondheim) & KTH (Stockholm, Sweden), funded by Norwegian Government - Prof Mihhail Matskin (Project leader); my role - associate researcher |
The
main objective of the project is development of models, methods
and a platform for adaptive intelligent distributed mobile information
services support. More
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visited NTNU between 28 August and 1 September, 2002, gave a seminar.
We continue collaboration within ADIS project even after Prof
M.Matskin moved from NTNU to KTH. |
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PhD project - John Page (commenced in September, 2002) -
Security issues in mobile agent communities |
With
rapid growth of distributed applications, mobile agents are playing
more and more prominent role. Vulnerabilities of mobile agent
based distributed systems include threats from hosting servers,
from other agents & processes, and the necessity to involve
a third party for establishing trust relationship between a visiting
mobile agent and a host computer. Lack of mechanisms to establish
trust relationship between members of mobile agent communities
as well as ways to guard the entire communities against attacks
and threats impede widespread adoption of agent technology. This
project aims at researching and developing ways of adaptive security
for roaming mobile agents and dynamic agent communities. We believe
that rather than protecting software agents against malicious
servers we should be able to detect at run-time whether an agent
has been compromised and act accordingly.
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PhD project - Lito Cruz (commenced in August, 2002) -
Reasoning about agent mobility and coordination |
This
project investigates impact of mobility on agent coordination
and use of ontologies for multi-agent systems.
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PhD project - Martin Pirotta (commenced in 1998, PT) -
Billing for resource utilisation by mobile agents |
This
project studies how to bill for resources making up a massively
distributed system in which mobile agents dwell and roam while
consuming resources and performing e-commerce operations on behalf
of their users.
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| Tracking
moving objects with mobile agents using discoverable resources |
Given
abundance of computational resources in the surrounding environment
mobile agents are capable of tracking moving objects using discoverable
resources like microphones, as an example of a listening device.
Proof-of-concept project has been carried out by Daniel Hägglund
(danhag-7@student.luth.se) from Luleå University of Technology
who did his Masters under my supervision and help from Kåre
Synnes, Luleå University of Technology in 2002. More
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Mobile agents for sound recognition and tracking
Mobile agents/intelligent assistants in the mobile phone
Using Elvin (publish-subscribe) for mobile agent communication
Agents in e-commerce
2. Distributed data mining and e-commerce
ARC Discovery – Dr Shonali Krishnaswamy –ARC fellow, “Efficient
Prediction of Application Metrics for E-Services”, 2003-2005
Scalable distributed data mining with mobile agents – PhD, about
to commence
3. Pervasive & mobile computing
Formalisation of and manipulation with context – PhD
project, just started
CoolCampus –
pervasive services and applications
Decision support for mobile users – joint with SIMS,
ARC discovery applied – Masters
Location-awareness and adaptive security – Masters
project, just finished
PANDA – FP6
TPPDS - Trusted contextualised pervasive personalised devices
and services – next year, FP6
Context algebra and formal foundations of context
4. Wireless networks & services
Wireless LAN topology visualisation & management –
ongoing project, Masters
Ad hoc wireless network protocols and support for hot-spot
areas – PhD in LTU, Sweden
Wireless LAN positioning and client tracking
Locating unauthorised sources of wireless LAN transmission
– Masters project
5. M3 DSTC
Mobility in enterprise applications
6. Misc
Document overlap detection – fast engine for plagiarism detection
– PhD completed
Schema mapping with MOF – PhD project about to finish (Andy Bond
& Kathy Ewald)