Program of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Agents (MA 2001)
December 2-4, 2001, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Sunday, December 2

7:30 Registration    
7:30-8:30 Coffee and Tea    
8:30-12:00 Morning Tutorials (choose one)  
    Mobile Middleware for Future
Telecommunications: Motivation, Future Services
and Architectures Based on enago-Mobile
Abstract [Cancelled]
T. Magedanz and L. Hagen (IKV Technologies AG, Germany)
Biography
    Global Computation and the Ambient Calculus
Abstract [Cancelled]
L. Cardelli (Microsoft Research, UK)
Biography
12:00-1:30 Lunch (for those registered both AM and PM)  
1:30-5:00 Afternoon Tutorials (choose one)  
    Mobile Agents for Application Integration
Abstract
F. Igo (Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, USA) and M. Kawaguchi (Mitsubishi Electric, Japan)
Biography
    Resource Control for Mobile Agents
Abstract
N. Suri (University of West Florida, USA)
Biography
7:30-9:30 Reception    

Monday, December 3

7:45 Registration    
8:00-8:45 Continental Breakfast    
8:45-9:00   Welcome by Organizers  
9:00-10:00   Keynote  
    Mobile Code Research: Looking Back and Peering Ahead F. B. Schneider (Cornell University, USA)
Biography
10:00-10:30 Break    
10:30-12:00 Session A Security  
    On the Robustness of some Cryptographic Protocols for Mobile Agent Protection
Abstract
V. Roth (Fraunhofer Institut für Graphische
Datenverarbeitung, Germany)
    Trust Relationships in a Mobile Agent System
Abstract
H. Kim Tan and L. Moreau (University of Southampton, UK)
    Evaluating The Security of Mobile Agent Systems
Abstract
S. Fischmeister, G. Vigna, and R. A. Kemmerer (University of California Santa Barbara, USA)
12:00-2:00 Lunch (on own)  
2:00-3:30 Session B Models and Architectures  
    Formal Specification and Verification of Mobile Agent Data Integrity Properties: A Case Study
Abstract
X. Hannotin, P. Maggi, and R. Sisto (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
    Lime Revisited
Abstract
B. Carbunar, M. T. Valente, and J. Vitek (Purdue University, USA)
    Dynamic Adaptation of Mobile Agents in
Heterogeneous Environments
Abstract
R. Brandt (Skyguide Switzerland) and H. Reiser (University of Münich, Germany)
3:30-4:00 Break    
4:00-5:30 Session C Applications  
    Fast File Access for Fast Agents
Abstract
E. Gendelman, L. Bic, and M. Dillencourt (University of California Irvine, USA)
    Flying Emulator: Rapid Building and Testing of
Networked Applications for Mobile Computers
Abstract
I. Satoh (National Institute of Informatics/Japan Science and Technology Corporation, Japan)
    Crawlets: Agents for High Performance Web Search Engines
Abstract
P. Thati, P. H. Chang, and G. Agha (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA)
5:30-7:00 Reception Poster Session  
7:00-8:30 Dinner Banquet    

Tuesday, December 4 

8:00 Registration    
8:00-9:00 Continental Breakfast    
9:00-10:00   Keynote  
    Mobile Agents and the Unsexy (but Lucrative) Reality -- Integrating and Extending the Enterprise A. Ricciardi (Valaran Corporation, USA)
Biography
10:00-10:30 Break    
10:30-12:00 Session D Communication  
    An Efficient Mailbox-Based Algorithm for Message Delivery in Mobile Agent Systems
Abstract
X. Feng (Nanjing Univ., China), J. Cao (Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., China), J. Lu (Nanjing Univ., China), and H. Chan (Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., China)
    Using Predicates for Specifying Targets of Migration and Messages in a Peer-to-Peer Mobile Agent Environment
Abstract
K. Haller and H. Schuldt (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH, Switzerland)
    A Scalable and Secure Global Tracking Service for Mobile Agents
Abstract
V. Roth and J. Peters (Fraunhofer Institut für Graphische Datenverarbeitung, Germany)
12:00-1:30 Luncheon    
1:30-3:00 Session E Run-Time Support  
    Translating Strong Mobility into Weak Mobility
Abstract
L. Bettini and R. De Nicola (Univ. di Firenze, Italy)
    Transparent Migration of Mobile Agents Using the Java Platform Debugger Architecture
Abstract
T. Illmann, T. Krueger, F. Kargl, and M. Weber (University of Ulm, Germany)
    Portable Resource Reification in Java-based Mobile Agent Systems
Abstract
A. Villazón (University of Geneva, Switzerland) and W. Binder (CoCo Software Engineering, Austria)
3:00-3:30 Break    
3:30-5:00 Session F Quantitative Evaluation and Benchmarking  
    Mobile-Agent versus Client/Server Performance: Scalability in an Information-Retrieval Task
Abstract
R. S. Gray, D. Kotz, R. A. Peterson, Jr. (Dartmouth College, USA), D. Chacón, P. Gerken, J. Barton, M. Hofmann (Lockeed-Martin Advanced Technology Laboratory, USA), J. Bradshaw, M. Breedy, and N. Suri (University of West Florida, USA)
    Performance Evaluation of Mobile-Agent Middleware: A Hierarchical Approach
Abstract
M. Dikaiakos, M. Kyriakou, and G. Samaras (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
    Scheduling Multi-Task Agents
Abstract
R. Xie, D. Rus (Dartmouth College, USA), and C. Stein, (Columbia University, USA)
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