7 1/2 X 9 1/4 in Part I Motivation for and Introduction to Mobile Agents

1 Designing Innovative Distributed Systems

2 From Client-Server to Mobile Agents
2.1 A First Look at Mobile Agents
2.1.1 The Artificial Intelligence Point of View
2.1.2 The Distrib uted Systems Point of View
2.2 A Short History of Mobile Ag ents
2.2.1 The Early Approaches of Mobile Code
2.2.2 Remote Evaluation
2.2.3 Mobile Objects
2.2.4 Mobile Processes
2.2.5 Mobile Agents
2.3 Similar but Different Concepts
2.3.1 Internet Agents, Worm s, and Spiders
2.3.2 Java Applets
2.3.3 Java S ervlets
2.4 Why Are Mobile Agents a Good Idea?
2.5 Possible Application Domains of Mobile Agents

Part II Mobile Agents Concepts, Functions, and Possible Problems

3 Mobile Agent Migration
3.1 The Mobile Agent Migration Process
3.1.1 Generic