Mobile Agents and Security

New paradigms can popularize old technologies. A new standalone" paradigm, the electronic desktop, popularized the personal computer. A new connected" paradigm, the web browser, popularized the Internet. Another new paradigm, the mobile agent, may further popularize the Internet by giving people greater access to it with less eort. MobileAgentParadigm The mobile agent paradigm integrates a network of computers in a novel way designed to simplify the development of network applications. To an app