D'Agents project: Dartmouth system for mobile agents (1994-2003)

The D'Agents project was at the core of the "ActComm" project and a key member of DARPA's CoABS project. This project is no longer active; this page is no longer updated. Site last updated on October 25, 2002; reformatted May 2020. The D'Agents Project ended in approximately 2003. The software, and this web site, is no longer maintained.

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Related keywords: [agents], [context-aware], [markets], [privacy], [security], [sensors], [survey]

Summary

Mobile agents are software programs that can move from host to host at times and to places of their own choosing. They are a form of active mobile code that open up new possibilities in distributed computing. Our team created Agent Tcl, one of the first comprehensive mobile-agent software platforms in the research community. In a five-year DARPA-funded effort we transformed Agent Tcl into D'Agents, which supported Java and Scheme as well as the Tcl programming languages, and which enabled our research on performance aspects of mobile code, the security challenges in mobile code, and market-based control of mobile agents and distributed systems.

Why mobile agents? Read our position paper or David Kotz's MA2002 keynote presentation.

To read more:

• Overview
• Research
• Facilities
• Tutorials
• Video of 1999 talk at AFRL
• Dartmouth Workshop on Transportable Agents (DWTA), held 1996, 1997, 1999

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People

A partial list of people involved in D'Agents includes: Jay Aslam, Joyce Barton, Tamer Başar, Jeffrey Bradshaw, Jonathan L. Bredin, Maggie Breedy, Brian Brewington, Marco Carvalho, Daria A. Chacön, Sumit Chawla, Debbie Chyi, Thomas Cowin, Marco Cremonini, George Cybenko, Chris Garrett, Peter Gerken, Robert S. Gray, Arne Grimstrup, Ken Harker, James Hendler, Greg Hill, Melissa Hirschl, Martin O. Hofmann, Çagri Imer, Renia Jeffers, Guofei Jiang, Keith D. Kotay, David Kotz, Rajiv T. Maheswaran, Katsuhiro Moizumi, Saurab Nog, Ronald A. Peterson, Daniela Rus, Niranjan Suri, Kenneth R. Whitebread.

Sponsors

	Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR contract F49620-93-10266)
	Air Force Rome Laboratories (Rome Labs contract F30602-98-C-0006)
	Office of Naval Research (ONR contract N00014-95-1-1204)
	DoD MURI (AFOSR contract F49620-97-1-03821)
	Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Information Systems Office (DARPA contract F30602-98-2-0107)
	The Center for Mobile Computing at Dartmouth

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D'Agents papers (other)

• aja:fuzzy (BibTeX entry)
  Santiago Aja-Fernández and Carlos Alberola-López and George V. Cybenko. A fuzzy MHT algorithm applied to text-based information tracking. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 10:360-374, June, 2002. [PDF]
• alberola:tracking (BibTeX entry)
  Carlos Alberola and George Cybenko. Multiple Hypothesis Text-based Tracking of Land Vehicles. 1997. Submitted to IEEE Intelligent Systems. No online copy available.
• aslam:scalable Javed Aslam and Fred Reiss and Daniela Rus. Scalable Information Organization. In RIAO '00: Content-Based Multimedia Information Access, Volume 2, April 2000. [gzipped Postscript] [PDF]
• berk:pqs (BibTeX entry)
  Vincent Berk and Wayne Chung and Valentino Crespi and George Cybenko and Robert Gray and Diego Hernando and Guofei Jiang and Han Li and Yong Sheng. Process Query Systems for Surveillance and Awareness. In Proceedings of the Seventh World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI 2003), Orlando, FL, July, 2003. International Institute of Informatics and Systemics. [PDF]
• brewington:dynamic (BibTeX entry)
  Brian Brewington and George Cybenko. How dynamic is the web?In Proceedings of the Ninth International World Wide Web Conference, May, 2000. International World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2). [gzipped Postscript] [PDF]
• brewington:keepup (BibTeX entry)
  Brian Brewington and George Cybenko. Keeping up with the changing web. IEEE Computer, 33(5):52-58, May, 2000. [gzipped Postscript] [PDF] [HTML]
• brewington:observe (BibTeX entry)
  Brian Brewington. Ph.D Thesis Proposal: Optimal Observation with WWW Applications. 1998. [gzipped Postscript] [PDF]
• brewington:thesis (BibTeX entry)
  Brian Brewington. Observation of changing information sources. Ph.D. Thesis, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, June, 2000. [gzipped Postscript] [PDF]
• caripe:awareness (BibTeX entry)
  Wilmer Caripe and George Cybenko and Katsuhiro Moizumi and Robert Gray. Network Awareness and Mobile Agent Systems. IEEE Communications Magazine, 36(7):44-49, July, 1998. [PDF]
• caripe:mobileip (BibTeX entry)
  Wilmer Caripe. Mobile IP Extensions for Multi-Hop Wireless Networks. Masters Thesis, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, June, 1998. [gzipped Postscript] [PDF]
• cooper:thesis (BibTeX entry)
  Ezra E. K. Cooper and Robert S. Gray. An Economic CPU-Time Market for D'Agents. Technical Report TR2000-375, Dept. of Computer Science, Dartmouth College, June, 2000. [gzipped Postscript] [PDF] [https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/senior_theses/6/]
• corr:reconfigurable (BibTeX entry)
  Michael G. Corr and C. M. Okino. Networking Reconfigurable Smart Sensors. In Proceedings of SPIE: Enabling Technologies for Law Enforcement and Security, November, 2000. SPIE. [gzipped Postscript] [PDF]
• corr:thesis (BibTeX entry)
  Michael G. Corr. Geographic Based Ad-Hoc Routing for Distributed Sensor Networks. Masters Thesis, Dept. of Computer Science, Dartmouth College, June, 2001. [gzipped Postscript] [PDF]
• cybenko:3dcad (BibTeX entry)
  George Cybenko and Aditya Bhasin and Kurt D. Cohen. Pattern Recognition of 3D CAD Objects: Towards an Electronic Yellow Pages of Mechanical Parts. Smart Engineering Systems Design, 1:1-13, 1997. [gzipped Postscript] [PDF]
• cybenko:agentoverview (BibTeX entry)
  George Cybenko and Robert Gray and Yunxin Wu and Alexy Khrabov. Information Architecture and Agents. June, 1994. Unpublished manuscript. [gzipped Postscript] [PDF]
• cybenko:effectiveness (BibTeX entry)
  George Cybenko and S. Saarinen and Robert Gray and Yunxin Wu and Alexy Khrabrov. On the effectiveness of memory-based methods in machine learning. In K. Warwick, editor, Dealing with Complexity, Springer-Verlag, 1997. [gzipped Postscript] [PDF]
• cybenko:functional (BibTeX entry)
  George Cybenko and Guofei Jiang. Matching Conflicts: Functional Validation of Agents. In AAAI Workshop of Agent Conflicts, pages 14-19, Orlando, Florida, July, 1999. AAAI Press. [gzipped Postscript] [PDF]
• cybenko:grid (BibTeX entry)
  George Cybenko and Guofei Jiang and Daniel Bilar. Machine Learning Applications in Grid Computing. In Proceedings of the 37th Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, pages 348-357, September, 1999. [gzipped Postscript] [PDF]
• cybenko:multiple (BibTeX entry)
  G. Cybenko and K. Moizumi. The Multiple Travelling Agent Problem. In Proceedings of the IFORS '99, the 15th Triennial Conference of IFORS (the International Federation of Operational Research Societies), Beijing, PRC, August, 1999. No online copy available.
• cybenko:organizers (BibTeX entry)
  George Cybenko and Robert Gray and Alexy Khrabrov and Yunxin Wu. Information agents as organizers. In Yannis Labrou and Tim Finin, editors, Proceedings of the CIKM Workshop on Intelligent Information Agents, Third International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 94), Gaithersburg, MD, December, 1994. [HTML]
• cybenko:push (BibTeX entry)
  George Cybenko and Brian Brewington. The Foundations of Information Push and Pull. In D. O'Leary, editor, Mathematics of Information, Springer-Verlag, 1998. [gzipped Postscript] [PDF]
• cybenko:qlearn (BibTeX entry)
  George Cybenko and Robert Gray and Katsuhiro Moizumi. Q-Learning: A Tutorial and Extensions. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Mathematics of Artificial Neural Networks, Oxford University, England, July, 1997. Kluwer Academic Publishers. [gzipped Postscript] [PDF]
• cybenko:theoretic (BibTeX entry)
  George Cybenko and Robert Gray and Alexy Khrabrov and Yunxin Wu. Information theoretic principles of agents. In Yannis Labrou and Tim Finin, editors, Proceedings of the CIKM Workshop on Intelligent Information Agents, Third International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 94), Gaithersburg, MD, December, 1994. [HTML]
• dubrovsky:dassf-tr (BibTeX entry)
  Nikita E. Dubrovsky. Mobile Agents Simulation with DaSSF. Technical Report TR2004-499, Dept. of Computer Science, Dartmouth College, June, 2004. [PDF] [https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/senior_theses/36/]
• gray:agenttcl (BibTeX entry)
  Robert S. Gray. Agent Tcl: A transportable agent system. In Proceedings of the CIKM Workshop on Intelligent Information Agents, Fourth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 95), Baltimore, Maryland, December, 1995. [gzipped Postscript] [PDF]
• gray:agenttcl-man (BibTeX entry)
  Robert S. Gray. Agent Tcl: Alpha Release 1.1. December, 1995. [gzipped Postscript] [PDF]
• gray:overview (BibTeX entry)
  Robert S. Gray. Soldiers, agents and wireless networks: a report on a military application. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on the Practical Application of Intelligent Agent and Multi Agent Technology, pages 1-6, April, 2000. [gzipped Postscript] [PDF]
• gray:proposal (BibTeX entry)
  Robert S. Gray. Transportable agents. Technical Report PCS-TR95-261, Dept. of Computer Science, Dartmouth College, 1995. Thesis proposal. [gzipped Postscript] [PDF] [https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/cs_tr/116/]
• gray:security (BibTeX entry)
  Robert S. Gray. Agent Tcl: A flexible and secure mobile-agent system. In Proceedings of the 1996 Tcl/Tk Workshop, pages 9-23, July, 1996. USENIX Association. [gzipped Postscript] [PDF]
• gray:security2 (BibTeX entry)
  Robert S. Gray. Agent Tcl: A flexible and secure mobile-agent system. Dr. Dobbs Journal, 22(3):18-27, March, 1997. [https://www.drdobbs.com/open-source/agent-tcl/184410147]
• gray:thesis (BibTeX entry)
  Robert Gray. Agent Tcl: A flexible and secure mobile-agent system. Ph.D. Thesis, Dept. of Computer Science, Dartmouth College, June, 1997. Available as Dartmouth Computer Science Technical Report TR98-327. [gzipped Postscript] [PDF] [https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/dissertations/62/]
• harker:thesis (BibTeX entry)
  Kenneth Harker. TIAS: A Transportable Intelligent Agent System. Technical Report PCS-TR95-258, Dept. of Computer Science, Dartmouth College, June, 1995. Senior Honors Thesis. [gzipped Postscript] [PDF] [https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/senior_theses/171/]
• jiang:complexity (BibTeX entry)
  Guofei Jiang and George Cybenko and Jim Hendler. Semantic Depth and Markup Complexity. In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on System, Man and Cybernetics, pages 2138-2143, Washington, DC, October, 2003. IEEE Computer Society Press. [PDF]
• jiang:convergence (BibTeX entry)
  Guofei Jiang and Hui-Qi Gao and Cang-Pu Wu and George Cybenko. Convergence Analysis of a Discretization Procedure in Q-Learning. In Proceedings of the 14th IFAC Triennial World Congress, pages 281-286, Beijing, PRC, July, 1999. Elsevier. [PDF]
• jiang:tactical (BibTeX entry)
  Guofei Jiang and Wayne Chung and George Cybenko. Semantic Agent Technologies for Tactical Sensor Networks. In Edward M. Carapezza, editor, Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Unattended Ground Sensor Technologies and Applications V, pages 311-320, Orlando, FL, September, 2003. SPIE. [PDF]
• moizumi:agent-plan (BibTeX entry)
  Katsuhiro Moizumi and George Cybenko. The Traveling Agent Problem. Mathematics of Control, Signals and Systems, 14(3):213-232, 2001. [gzipped Postscript] [PDF]
• moizumi:thesis (BibTeX entry)
  Katsuhiro Moizumi. The mobile-agent planning problem. Ph.D. Thesis, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, 1998. [gzipped Postscript] [PDF]
• moizumi:uncertainty (BibTeX entry)
  Katsuhiro Moizumi and George Cybenko. Uncertainty in Intelligent and Transportable Agent Systems. 1997. unpublished manuscript. [gzipped Postscript] [PDF]
• okino:active (BibTeX entry)
  C. Okino and G. Cybenko. Modeling and analysis of active messages in volatile networks. In Proceedings of the 37th Allerton Conference on Communications, Control and Computing, Monticello, IL, 1999. [gzipped Postscript] [PDF]
• rus:scheduling (BibTeX entry)
  Daniela Rus and Clifford Stein and Rong Xie. Scheduling Multi-task Multi-agent Systems. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Autonomous Agents, pages 159-160, 2001. ACM Press. Poster abstract. [PDF]
• sharma:thesis (BibTeX entry)
  Rohit Sharma. Mobile Agent Construction Environment. Masters Thesis, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, June, 1997. No online copy available.
• sundaram:thesis (BibTeX entry)
  Shankar Sundaram. Mission-Flow Constructor: A Workflow Management System Using Mobile Agents. Masters Thesis, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, May, 2000. [gzipped Postscript] [PDF]
• white:thesis (BibTeX entry)
  D. Eric White. A Comparison of Mobile Agent Migration Mechanisms. Senior Honors Thesis, Dartmouth College, June, 1998. No online copy available.
• xie:scheduling (BibTeX entry)
  Rong Xie and Daniela Rus and Cliff Stein. Scheduling Multi-Task Agents. In Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Conference on Mobile Agents, pages 260-276, Atlanta, Georgia, December, 2001. Springer-Verlag. [gzipped Postscript] [PDF]

D'Agents papers (Kotz)

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Papers are listed in reverse-chronological order. Follow updates with RSS.

2003:

• Jonathan Bredin, Rajiv T. Maheswaran, Çagri Imer, Tamer Başar, David Kotz, and Daniela Rus. Computational Markets to Regulate Mobile-Agent Systems. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, volume 6, number 3, pages 235–263. Kluwer Academic Publishers, May 2003. doi:10.1023/A:1022923422570. [Details]

2002:

• Robert S. Gray, George Cybenko, David Kotz, and Daniela Rus. Mobile agents: Motivations and State of the Art. Handbook of Agent Technology. Edited by Jeffrey Bradshaw. AAAI/MIT Press, 2002. Accepted for publication, but the book never published. Draft available as Technical Report TR2000-365, Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College. [Details]
• Arne Grimstrup, Robert Gray, David Kotz, Maggie Breedy, Marco Carvalho, Thomas Cowin, Daria Chacón, Joyce Barton, Chris Garrett, and Martin Hofmann. Toward Dynamic Interoperability of Mobile Agent Systems. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Mobile Agents, volume 2535 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 106–120. Springer, October 2002. doi:10.1007/3-540-36112-X_8. [Details]
• David Kotz, Robert Gray, and Daniela Rus. Future Directions for Mobile-Agent Research. IEEE Distributed Systems Online, volume 3, number 8, 6 pages. IEEE, August 2002. Based on a conversation with Jeff Bradshaw, Colin Harrison, Guenter Karjoth, Amy Murphy, Gian Pietro Picco, M. Ranganathan, Niranjan Suri, and Christian Tschudin. [Details]
• Robert S. Gray, George Cybenko, David Kotz, Ronald A. Peterson, and Daniela Rus. D’Agents: Applications and Performance of a Mobile-Agent System. Software--- Practice and Experience, volume 32, number 6, pages 543–573. John Wiley & Sons, May 2002. doi:10.1002/spe.449. Invited paper. [Details]
• David Kotz, George Cybenko, Robert S. Gray, Guofei Jiang, Ronald A. Peterson, Martin O. Hofmann, Daria A. Chacón, Kenneth R. Whitebread, and James Hendler. Performance Analysis of Mobile Agents for Filtering Data Streams on Wireless Networks. Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET), volume 7, number 2, pages 163–174. Kluwer Academic Publishers, April 2002. doi:10.1023/A:1013778922814. Invited paper. [Details]
• David Kotz, Robert Gray, and Daniela Rus. Future Directions for Mobile-Agent Research. Technical Report number TR2002-415, Dartmouth Computer Science, January 2002. Based on a conversation with Jeff Bradshaw, Colin Harrison, Guenter Karjoth, Amy Murphy, Gian Pietro Picco, M. Ranganathan, Niranjan Suri, and Christian Tschudin. [Details]

2001:

• Jonathan Bredin, David Kotz, Daniela Rus, Rajiv T. Maheswaran, Çagri Imer, and Tamer Başar. A Market-Based Model for Resource Allocation in Agent Systems. Coordination of Internet Agents Models, Technologies, and Applications, chapter 17, pages 426–441. Edited by Franco Zambonelli. Springer-Verlag, 2001. ISBN: 3-540-41613-7. [Details]
• Robert S. Gray, David Kotz, Ronald A. Peterson, Joyce Barton, Daria Chacón, Peter Gerken, Martin Hofmann, Jeffrey Bradshaw, Maggie Breedy, Renia Jeffers, and Niranjan Suri. Mobile-Agent versus Client/Server Performance: Scalability in an Information-Retrieval Task. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Mobile Agents, volume 2240 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 229–243. Springer-Verlag, Atlanta, Georgia, December 2001. doi:10.1007/3-540-45647-3_16. A corrected version of this paper is available on the Dartmouth web site. [Details]
• Jay Aslam, Marco Cremonini, David Kotz, and Daniela Rus. Using Mobile Agents for Analyzing Intrusion in Computer Networks. Proceedings of the Workshop on Mobile Object Systems at ECOOP, 2 pages. July 2001. [Details]
• Arne Grimstrup, Robert Gray, David Kotz, Thomas Cowin, Greg Hill, Niranjan Suri, Daria Chacón, and Martin Hofmann. Write Once, Move Anywhere: Toward Dynamic Interoperability of Mobile Agent Systems. Technical Report number TR2001-411, Dartmouth Computer Science, July 2001. [Details]
• Jonathan L. Bredin. Market-based Control of Mobile-agent Systems. PhD thesis, Dartmouth College Computer Science, Hanover, NH, June 2001. Available as Dartmouth Computer Science Technical Report TR2001-408. [Details]
• Jonathan Bredin, David Kotz, and Daniela Rus. The Role of Information in Computational-Resource Allocation, for the TASK Electronic Commerce REF. Invited paper at the DARPA TASK PI meeting, May 2001. [Details]
• Robert S. Gray, David Kotz, Ronald A. Peterson, Peter Gerken, Martin Hofmann, Daria Chacón, Greg Hill, and Niranjan Suri. Mobile-Agent versus Client/Server Performance: Scalability in an Information-Retrieval Task. Technical Report number TR2001-386, Dartmouth Computer Science, January 2001. [Details]

2000:

• David Kotz, George Cybenko, Robert S. Gray, Guofei Jiang, Ronald A. Peterson, Martin O. Hofmann, Daria A. Chacon, Kenneth R. Whitebread, and James Hendler. Performance Analysis of Mobile Agents for Filtering Data Streams on Wireless Networks. Technical Report number TR2000-377, Dartmouth Computer Science, October 2000. [Details]
• David Kotz, Guofei Jiang, Robert Gray, George Cybenko, and Ronald A. Peterson. Performance Analysis of Mobile Agents for Filtering Data Streams on Wireless Networks. Proceedings of the Workshop on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM), pages 85–94. ACM, August 2000. doi:10.1145/346855.346868. Honorable mention as “Best Paper”. [Details]
• Jonathan Bredin, David Kotz, and Daniela Rus. Trading Risk in Mobile-Agent Computational Markets. International Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance, 10 pages. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Barcelona, Spain, July 2000. No proceedings available. [Details]
• Jonathan Bredin, Rajiv T. Maheswaran, Çagri Imer, Tamer Başar, David Kotz, and Daniela Rus. A Game-Theoretic Formulation of Multi-Agent Resource Allocation. Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents, pages 349–356. ACM, June 2000. doi:10.1145/336595.337525. [Details]
• David Kotz, Guofei Jiang, Robert Gray, George Cybenko, and Ronald A. Peterson. Performance Analysis of Mobile Agents for Filtering Data Streams on Wireless Networks. Technical Report number TR2000-366, Dartmouth Computer Science, May 2000. [Details]
• Debbie O. Chyi. An Infrastructure for a Mobile-Agent System that Provides Personalized Services to Mobile Devices. Technical Report number TR2000-370, Dartmouth Computer Science, Hanover, NH, May 2000. Available as Dartmouth Computer Science Technical Report TR2000-370. Senior Honors Thesis. Advisor: David Kotz. [Details]
• Robert S. Gray, George Cybenko, David Kotz, and Daniela Rus. Mobile agents: Motivations and State of the Art. Technical Report number TR2000-365, Dartmouth Computer Science, April 2000. [Details]

1999:

• Brian Brewington, Robert Gray, Katsuhiro Moizumi, David Kotz, George Cybenko, and Daniela Rus. Mobile Agents for Distributed Information Retrieval. Intelligent Information Agents, chapter 15, pages 355–395. Edited by Matthias Klusch. Springer-Verlag, 1999. ISBN: 3-540-65112-8. [Details]
• Jonathan Bredin, Rajiv T. Maheswaran, Çagri Imer, Tamer Başar, David Kotz, and Daniela Rus. A Game-Theoretic Formulation of Multi-Agent Resource Allocation. Technical Report number PCS-TR99-360, Dartmouth Computer Science, October 1999. [Details]
• David Kotz and Robert S. Gray. Mobile Agents and the Future of the Internet. ACM Operating Systems Review, volume 33, number 3, pages 7–13. ACM, August 1999. doi:10.1145/311124.311130. [Details]
• Jonathan Bredin, David Kotz, and Daniela Rus. Mobile-Agent Planning in a Market-Oriented Environment. Technical Report number PCS-TR99-345, Dartmouth Computer Science, May 1999. Revision 1 of May 20, 1999. [Details]
• Jonathan Bredin, David Kotz, and Daniela Rus. Economic Markets as a Means of Open Mobile-Agent Systems. Proceedings of the Mobile Agents in the Context of Competition and Cooperation (MAC3) Workshop at Autonomous Agents’99, pages 43–49. ACM, May 1999. [Details]
• David Kotz and Robert S. Gray. Mobile Code: The Future of the Internet. Proceedings of the Mobile Agents in the Context of Competition and Cooperation (MAC3) Workshop at Autonomous Agents'99, pages 6–12. ACM, May 1999. [Details]
• David Kotz, Robert Gray, Saurab Nog, Daniela Rus, Sumit Chawla, and George Cybenko. Mobile Agents for Mobile Computing. Mobility: Processes, Computers, and Agents, chapter 14.3, pages 513–523. Edited by Dejan S. Milojičić, Frederick Douglis, and Richard G. Wheeler. Addison Wesley and ACM Press, April 1999. ISBN13: 9780201379280. [Details]

1998:

• Robert S. Gray, David Kotz, George Cybenko, and Daniela Rus. D’Agents: Security in a multiple-language, mobile-agent system. Mobile Agents and Security, chapter 9, pages 154–187. Edited by Giovanni Vigna. Volume 1419 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, 1998. doi:10.1007/3-540-68671-1. ISBN13: 978-3-540-68671-2. [Details]
• Jonathan Bredin, David Kotz, and Daniela Rus. Utility Driven Mobile-Agent Scheduling. Technical Report number PCS-TR98-331, Dartmouth Computer Science, May 1998. Revised October 3, 1998. [Details]
• Jonathan Bredin, David Kotz, and Daniela Rus. Market-based Resource Control for Mobile Agents. Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents, pages 197–204. ACM, May 1998. doi:10.1145/280765.280801. [Details]

1997:

• Jonathan Bredin, David Kotz, and Daniela Rus. Market-based Resource Control for Mobile Agents. Technical Report number PCS-TR97-326, Dartmouth Computer Science, December 1997. [Details]
• Daniela Rus, Robert Gray, and David Kotz. Transportable Information Agents. Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, volume 9, pages 215–238. Kluwer Academic Publishers, November 1997. doi:10.1023/A:1008622002816. [Details]
• Daniela Rus, Robert Gray, and David Kotz. Transportable Information Agents. Readings in Agents, chapter 3.3, pages 283–291. Edited by Michael Huhns and Munindar Singh. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco, October 1997. doi:10.5555/284860.284912. ISBN13: 978-1-55860-495-7. [Details]
• David Kotz, Robert Gray, Saurab Nog, Daniela Rus, Sumit Chawla, and George Cybenko. Agent Tcl: Targeting the Needs of Mobile Computers. IEEE Internet Computing, volume 1, number 4, pages 58–67. IEEE, July 1997. doi:10.1109/4236.612217. [Details]
• Robert Gray, David Kotz, George Cybenko, and Daniela Rus. Agent Tcl. Mobile Agents: Explanations and Examples, chapter 4, pages 58–95. Edited by William Cockayne and Michael Zyda. Manning Publishing, March 1997. ISBN13: 9780138582425. Imprints by Manning Publishing and Prentice Hall. [Details]
• Robert Gray, David Kotz, Saurab Nog, Daniela Rus, and George Cybenko. Mobile Agents: The Next Generation in Distributed Computing. Proceedings of the Aizu International Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures Synthesis (pAs), pages 8–24. IEEE, Fukushima, Japan, March 1997. doi:10.1109/AISPAS.1997.581620. Invited paper. [Details]
• Melissa Hirschl and David Kotz. AGDB: A Debugger for Agent Tcl. Technical Report number PCS-TR97-306, Dartmouth Computer Science, Hanover, NH, February 1997. [Details]
• Daniela Rus, Robert Gray, and David Kotz. Transportable Information Agents. Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents, pages 228–236. ACM, February 1997. doi:10.1145/267658.267721. [Details]

1996:

• David Kotz, Robert Gray, and Daniela Rus. Transportable Agents Support Worldwide Applications. Proceedings of the ACM SIGOPS European Workshop, pages 41–48. ACM, September 1996. doi:10.1145/504450.504458. [Details]
• Daniela Rus, Robert Gray, and David Kotz. Autonomous and Adaptive Agents that Gather Information. Proceedings of the AAAI International Workshop on Intelligent Adaptive Agents, pages 107–116. AAAI Press, August 1996. Proceedings available as AAAI Technical Report WS-96-04. [Details]
• Robert Gray, David Kotz, Saurab Nog, Daniela Rus, and George Cybenko. Mobile agents for mobile computing. Technical Report number PCS-TR96-285, Dartmouth Computer Science, May 1996. [Details]
• Saurab Nog, Sumit Chawla, and David Kotz. An RPC Mechanism for Transportable Agents. Technical Report number PCS-TR96-280, Dartmouth Computer Science, March 1996. [Details]

1995:

• Kenneth Harker. TIAS: A Transportable Intelligent Agent System. Technical Report number PCS-TR95-258, Dartmouth Computer Science, Hanover, NH, June 1995. Available as Dartmouth Computer Science Technical Report PCS-TR95-258. Senior Honors Thesis. Advisor: David Kotz. [Details]

1994:

• Keith D. Kotay and David Kotz. Transportable Agents. Proceedings of the CIKM Workshop on Intelligent Information Agents, Third International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 15 pages. CIKM, Gaithersburg, Maryland, December 1994. [Details]

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