Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Mobile Agents for Telecommunications Applications, MATA 2003, held in Marrakech, Morocco in October 2003. The 27 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on network and service management and QoS provisioning, service management and service provisioning, context-aware applications, mobile networks and applications, agent platforms, mobility, and security.

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Network and Service Management / QoS Provisioning.- Efficient Formation of Dynamic Bluetooth Scatternet via Mobile Agent Processing.- Specification and Selection of Network Management Agents.- Mobile Agents for Dynamic SLA Negotiation.- Service Management - Service Provisioning.- Service Provisioning and Management in Telecom Environments Using Active Network Technology.- ASPOSE: Agent-Based Service Provisioning in Open Services Environment.- Policy-Based Service Provisioning and Users Management Using Mobile Agents.- Context-Aware Services Provisioning on Top of Active Technologies.- Context Aware Applications 1.- COSMOS: A Context-Centric Access Control Middleware for Mobile Environments.- Agent Support for Context-Aware Services and Personal Mobility.- Delivery Context Negotiated by Mobile Agents Using CC/PP.- Context Aware Applications 2.- Policy-Driven Mobile Agents for Context-Aware Service in Next Generation Networks.- Merging Virtual and Real Worlds in an Agent-Oriented Collaborative Environment.- A Formal Model of Active Contents Based on the Ambient Calculus.- Mobile Networks and Applications.- Introducing MPLS in Mobile Data Networks: An High Performance Framework for QoS-Powered IP Mobility.- Dynamic Resource Management for Mobile Services.- Adaptable Mobile Applications: Exploiting Logical Mobility in Mobile Computing.- Agent Platforms.- Design of a FIPA-Compliant Agent Platform for Limited Devices.- Implementation of a Mobile Agent Platform Based on Web Services.- EasiShop: Enabling uCommerce through Intelligent Mobile Agent Technologies.- Agent Platforms - Mobility.- Agent Migration over FIPA ACL Messages.- A Mobile Agent Manager.- An Evidence-Based Mobility Prediction Agent Architecture.- A Novel Architectural Framework for Adapting Mobile Agents to Host Variation.- Agent Platforms - Security.- Combining Immune Systems and Social Insect Metaphors: A Paradigm for Distributed Intrusion Detection and Response System.- Secure Mobile Agents Applications: Implementation through Platform Services.- Protecting Mobile Agent Itineraries.- Implementation and Performance Evaluation of a Protocol for Detecting Suspicious Hosts.