• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.30 no.5
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• pp.614-620
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• 2003

As the proliferation of Internet, mobile agent related technologies are examined for possible growth and evolution. In information retrieval, network and distributed system management, and electronic commerce, mobile agent is more flexible than the traditional communication paradigm. Despite the performance benefits, mobile agent is not used widely in the market because it is very vulnerable to a variety of attacks. In many studies related the security vulnerability for a mobile agent, the high security causes the performance to degrade. In this paper, we propose and evaluate the efficient security model for mobile agent using TDGM(Trusted Domain & Guide Manager), which provides three kinds of services : the trusted domain management, the security service and the travel plan guide. The result clearly shows that this model provides high security and minimizes the performance degradation.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.488-494
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• 2013

For the activeness and autonomy of a sensor network, the efficient migration method of a mobile agent and the consistent naming services are the required components of a sensor network. Accordingly, this paper presented the implementation of backward migration of an active rule mobile agent applying the naming method based on RMI that used the meta_table including the informations about the components of a sensor network. This study implemented based on the extension of the forward migration[12], and the results of the various experiments present the efficacy of mobile agent middleware system and the possibility of constructing efficient sensor network application environment. And, the results of this study are able to enhance the adaptability on dynamic changes of environment in sensor network application development.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2000.10a
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• pp.154-154
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• 2000

The cooperative strategy for the teleoperated multi-agent system is presented. And this scheme has been applied to the teleoperated robot soccer system that is newly proposed. For the teleoperated robot soccer system, we made mapping functions to control a 2-wheeled mobile robot using a 2 DoF stickcontroller. The simulation with a real stickcontroller has been evaluated the performance of the proposed mapping function. Then, the basic cooperation strategy has been tested between teleoperated robot and autonomous robot It is shown that the multi-agent system for teleoperation can have a good performance for a job Like a scoring a goal

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.10A no.5
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• pp.439-452
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• 2003

Mobile agent is one of the good technologies for overcoming network load and latency in distributed applications, and it may be a promising way of base technology of distributed applications because of its high adaptability for various network environments. In this paper, a mobile agent programming system, called HUMAN, is designed and implemented efficient use in various distributed applications based on mobile agents. HUMAN supports such high level utilities as file searhing, addressing by groups of nodes, storing path information, storing search information, and thus it gives us high easiness in agent-based programming. And it provides various itinerary modes and flexible reply modes for easy adaptation to given network environment. It also provides a management server for registering and active agents. Thus it can be efficiently applied for such varous distributed applications as searching distributed information, remote control, and file sharing in networks. A simple electronic commerce system is designed is designed and implemented as a HUMAN based illustrative application.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.202-205
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• 2003

본 논문은 모바일 멀티 에이전트프레임워크를 이용한 분산환경에서의 개인 디지털 도서관 서비스(PLS) 시스템을 제안하였다. 기존의 에이전트 프레임워크와 차별적으로 모바일 시스템과 분산 처리 시스템을 조합한 시스템을 사용하였으며 멀티 에이전트간 협상 알고리즘과 스케줄링 방법을 개발함으로써 프레임워크가 효율적으로 동작하도록 하였다.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.11-18
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• 2011

A mobile agent system is the most common software paradigm for distributed applications. A software development model to develop efficiently for these systems is needed. Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a widely used software development model to develop a system for Visualizing, Specifying, Constructing, Documenting. However, UML can not describe in explicit way the necessary mobility of the mobile agent-based software systems. In this paper, the interaction diagrams of UML (sequence diagrams and communication diagrams) are extended and used to express the mobility of the mobile agents in three ways. For a case study, we applied the extended diagrams to a distributed file searching using mobile agents, and showed these diagrams can describe the mobility very well.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.8C no.2
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• pp.221-233
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• 2001

오늘날 이동 에이전트 기술은 네트워크 트래픽을 효과적으로 줄이고, 서버의 인터페이스를 바꾸지 않고 클라이언트의 다양한 요청을 융통성 있게 서비스할 수 있는 기술로 여겨지고 있다. 그러나 대부분의 이동 에이전트 시스템들은 그들 자신의 구조를 적용하고 다른 방법으로 구현되어, 특정 이동 에이전트 시스템에서 생성된 이동 에이전트는 다른 에이전트 시스템에서는 사용될 수 없다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위하여 OMG(Object Management Group)는 이질적인 에이전트 시스템간의 상호운용선(interoperability)을 증진시킬 목적으로 이동 에이전트와 에이전트 시스템간의 공통된 개념적인 모델에 대하여 기술한 MAF(Mobile Agent Facilities) 명세를 제안하였다. 본 논문에서는 OMG MAF 명세를 만족하는 자바 기반의 SMART 시스템에 관하여 기술한다. SMART 시스템은 MAF 명세에 따른 이동 에이전트간의 상호운용성을 지원하고, MAF 명세에서 권장하는 보안 모델을 기반으로 한 독자적인 보안 기능을 제공한다. 또한 보다 안정된 에이전트 시스템의 운영을 위하여 자체적인 에이전트 및 에이전트 시스템의 영속성(persistence)과 예외처리를 지원한다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.33 no.2C
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• pp.208-218
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• 2008

We are sure that RFID system should be a widely used automatic identification system because of its various advantages and applications. However, many people know that invasions of privacy in RFID system is still critical problem that makes it difficult to be used. Many works for solving this problem have focused on light-weight cryptographic functioning in the RFID tag. An agent scheme is another approach that an agent device controls communications between the tag and the reader for protecting privacy. Generally an agent device has strong security modules and enough capability to process high-level cryptographic protocols and can guarantees consumer privacy. In this paper, we present an enhanced mobile agent for RFID privacy protection. In enhanced MARP, we modified some phases of the original MARP to reduce the probability of successful eavesdropping and to reduce the number of tag's protocol participation. And back-end server can authenticate mobile agents more easily using public key cryptography in this scheme. It guarantees not only privacy protection but also preventing forgery.

• Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.181-193
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• 2009

This paper presents a framework for controlling mobile multiple robots connected by communication networks. This framework provides novel methods to control coordinated systems using mobile agents. The combination of the mobile agent and mobile multiple robots opens a new horizon of efficient use of mobile robot resources. Instead of physical movement of multiple robots, mobile software agents can migrate from one robot to another so that they can minimize energy consumption in aggregation. The imaginary application is making "carts," such as found in large airports, intelligent. Travelers pick up carts at designated points but leave them arbitrary places. It is a considerable task to re-collect them. It is, therefore, desirable that intelligent carts (intelligent robots) draw themselves together automatically. Simple implementation may be making each cart has a designated assembly point, and when they are free, automatically return to those points. It is easy to implement, but some carts have to travel very long way back to their own assembly point, even though it is located close to some other assembly points. It consumes too much unnecessary energy so that the carts have to have expensive batteries. In order to ameliorate the situation, we employ mobile software agents to locate robots scattered in a field, e.g. an airport, and make them autonomously determine their moving behaviors by using a clustering algorithm based on the Ant Colony Optimization (ACO). ACO is the swarm intelligence-based methods, and a multi-agent system that exploit artificial stigmergy for the solution of combinatorial optimization problems. Preliminary experiments have provided a favorable result. In this paper, we focus on the implementation of the controlling mechanism of the multi-robots using the mobile agents.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.55-62
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• 2006

Important issues emerging with the opening of the ubiquitous age are how to present ubiquitous environment and how services and access methods can be provided to users. The present research proposes a system that can provide users with useful information dynamically through intelligent multi agents in mobile environment. The system is composed of profile module, rule generation module, filtering module and service module. It was designed to find users' demands in an intelligent way based on information on users registered through the recommendation agent. We implemented an applied system and proved its performance through an experiment.