First International Symposium on Agent Systems and Applications: Proceedings

Papers from an October 1999 symposium are grouped in sections on languages and tools, performance, planning and scheduling, networking and communications, distributed and mobile services, and agent intelligence. Specific topics include the effects of a mobile agent on file service, online scheduling and production plant configuration, protecting mobile web-commerce agents with Smartcards, and mobile agents for aggregation of network management data. Other subjects are composition of services with mobile code, robot media communication, and establishing a secure open environment for using mobile agents in electronic commerce. Lacks a subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)