Overview
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.
Synopsis
Mobile agents are concerned with self-contained and identifiable computer programs that can move within a network and can act on behalf of the user and another entity. To reduce information overload and to efficiently use network resources, most current research work on the mobile agent paradigm has two general goals: the reduction of network traffic and asynchronous interaction,. The international contributors to this book provide an overview of how the mobile code can be used in networking with the aim of developing further intelligent information retrieval, network and mobility management and network services.