• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제3권4호
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• pp.307-316
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• 2001

Two hard sub-problems have emerged relating to the use of mobile agents for service management tasks. First, what is their impact on security, and second, how can they receive a flexible capacity to adapt to an open range of different environments on demand, without introducing trio stringent prior assumptions. In this paper, we present work towards solving the second problem, which is of particular interest to management software, because it typically needs to excert fine-grained and therefore particular resource control. We suggest a mechanism that reassembles mobile agents from smaller sub-components during arrival at each hop. The process incorporates patterns of unmutable and mutable sub-components, and is informed by the conditions of each local environment. We discuss different kinds of software adaptation and draw a distinction between static and continuous forms. Our software prototype for dynamic adaptation provides a concept far exchanging environment-dependent implementations of mobile agents during runtime. Dynamic adaptation enhances efficiency of mobile code in terms of bandwidth usage and scalability.

• 디지털산업정보학회논문지
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• 제7권1호
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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.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제37권3호
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• pp.573-583
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• 2015

We introduce the idea of a forward-secure undetachable digital signature (FS-UDS) in this paper, which enables mobile agents to generate undetachable digital signatures with forward security of the original signer's signing key. The definition and security notion of an FS-UDS scheme are given. Then, the construction of a concrete FS-UDS scheme is proposed; and the proof of security for the proposed scheme is also provided. In the proposed scheme, mobile agents need not carry the signing key when they generate digital signatures on behalf of the original signer, so the signing key will not be compromised. At the same time, the encrypted function is combined with the original signer's requirement; therefore, misuse of the signing algorithm can be prevented. Furthermore, in the case where a hacker has accessed the signing key of the original signer, he/she is not able to forge a signature for any time period prior to when the key was obtained.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.216-221
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• 2005

The rapid growth and spread of the World Wide Web has made it possible to easily access a variety of useful information. It is, however, very difficult to retrieve, manage, and use the desired information in web. Various kinds of systems such as Search engines, MetaSearch engines, Spiders, Softbots, Intelligent Agents or Web Agents have been developed by a large number of researchers and companies. Those systems as intelligent agent are employed to avoid the overload of information. To efficiently improve the Software Agents, it is necessary to represent and classify the retrieved data. And to improve performance of the Intelligent Agents to create the classification, it is offered how to evaluate the propriety with other information retrieved from the Web and to recommend to the user the most suitable information.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.123-144
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• 2014

Wireless sensor networks are generally deployed for specific applications to accomplish certain objectives over a period of time. To fulfill these objectives, it is crucial that the sensor network continues to function for a long time, even if some of its nodes become faulty. Energy efficiency and fault tolerance are undoubtedly the most crucial requirements for the design of an information extraction protocol for any sensor network application. However, most existing software agent based information extraction protocols are incapable of satisfying these requirements because of static agent itineraries and large agent sizes. This paper proposes an Information Extraction protocol based on Multiple software Agents with Dynamic Itineraries (IEMADI), where multiple software agents are dispatched in parallel to perform tasks based on the query assigned to them. IEMADI decides the itinerary for an agent dynamically at each hop using local information. Through mathematical analysis and simulation, we compare the performance of IEMADI with a well known static itinerary based protocol with respect to energy consumption and response time. The results show that IEMADI provides better performance than the static itinerary based protocols.

• 지능정보연구
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.1-21
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• 2003

전자상거래가 급속히 성장함에 따라 인터넷 상에서 인간을 대신하여 작업을 수행하는 에이전트가 활발히 사용되고 있다. 그러나, 현존하는 대부분의 전자상거래 에이전트들은 몇 가지 문제점을 가지고 있다. 그들은 구매자의 의사결정 행위 및 판매자의 정보 제공 활동을 완전히 지원하지 못하고 있다. 또한 이동 컴퓨팅 (mobile computing) 환경에도 적합하지 않다. 본 논문에서는 앞서 언급한 문제점들을 시정한, 개념적 프레임워크에 의거하여 개발된 다중-이동 에이전트 시스템 (MMAS: Multi-Mobile Agents System)을 소개한다. Tokyo IBM외 ASDK(Aglets Software Development Kit)을 사용하여 호텔 예약 분야에 대해 개발된 본 시스템은 상호 작용을 하는 구매자 측 에이전트와 사용자 측 에이전트로 구성되어 있다; 구매자 측 에이전트는 정보를 수집하고 다기준 의사결정 방법을 활용하여 이를 분석함으로써 구매자의 구매 의사결정을 도와주며, 판매자 측 에이전트는 판매자를 대신하여 데이터베이스를 관리하고 실시간 정보를 구매자 측 에이전트에게 제공한다. 본 시스템에서는 다중의 에이전트들이 효율성을 증대시키기 위하여 동시에 분담된 업무를 수행한다. 본 시스템은 위탁받은 작업이 끝나면 사용자들에게 이를 통지를 해주기 때문에 사용자들은 시스템과의 연결을 지속하고 있을 필요가 없다.

• 한국정보시스템학회지:정보시스템연구
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.48-52
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• 2005

The Mobile agent-based distributed systems become obtaining significant popularity as a potential vehicle to allow software components to be executed on heterogeneous environments despite mobility of users and computations. However, as these systems generally force mobile agents to use only common functionalities provided in every execution environment, the agents may not access environment-specific resources. In this paper, we propose a new framework using Aspect Oriented Programming technique to accommodate a variety of static resources as well as dynamic ones whose amount is continually changed at runtime even in the same execution environment. Unlike previous works, this framework divides roles of software developers into three groups to relieve application programmers from the complex and error prone parts of implementing dynamic adaptation and allowing each developer to only concentrate on his own part. Also, the framework enables policy decision makers to apply various adaptation policies to dynamically changing environments for adjusting mobile agents to the change of their resources.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.261-267
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• 2011

분산 시스템을 위한 강력한 소프트웨어 패러다임 중 하나가 이동 에이전트 시스템이다. 이동 에이전트의 사용이 증가하고 있으므로 이 시스템을 효율적으로 구축하기 위한 소프트웨어 개발 모델이 필요하다. 현재 소프트웨어 개발 모델로서 널리 사용되고 있는 것이 UML이다. 그러나 기존의 UML은 이동 에이전트 기반 소프트웨어 시스템을 개발하는 모델로 사용하고자 할 때 이동성을 명시적인 방식으로 기술할 수 없다. 본 논문에서는 UML 다이어그램 중 상호 작용 다이어그램(즉 순차 다이어그램과 통신 다이어그램)을 확장하여 세 가지 방법으로 이동 에이전트의 이동성을 명시적으로 표현하였는데 이동 에이전트를 위한 플랫폼의 기능도 포함하였다. 확장한 다이어그램의 표현법을 사용한 사례연구로 이동 에이전트를 이용한 분산형 파일 검색에 적용하였으며 이동 에이전트의 기능과 이동성을 잘 표현할 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.65-82
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• 2019

Technological innovations over the years have accentuated the workings in corporate- connected organizations and different application platforms. Hence, a unified management information system (MIS) that can utilize the Web and propel programming developments is required. Software agents, the latest developments in computer software technology, can be utilized to rapidly and effortlessly build integrated information systems. Consequently, 59 research papers on the use of software agents in MIS were identified from top 40 MIS journals published between 2007 and 2017. Then, we reviewed and classified all the research papers according to two categories: application fields and application categories. The application fields consisted of eight sub-groups: manufacturing, telecommunication systems, traffic and transportation management, information filtering and gathering, electronic commerce, business process management, entertainment, and medical care; whereas the application categories consisted of three sub-groups: multi-agent systems, personal assistants, and multi-agent simulation. The research papers were further divided into journal and year of publication, and journal and application field. The objective of our research was to understand the trend of the use software agent technology in MIS by examining the published research paper beside to add knowledge and content to the information system academic discipline.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.297-303
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• 2005

In this paper, I developed an intelligent multi agents based softPLC(IMPLC). In IMPLC, the standard IEC 1131-3 PLC languages(LD, SFC, FBD, ST) programmed by a user are converted to IL, which is one of intermediate codes, in order to make them interactions. And then the IL is converted to the standard C code regarding some extension and transplanting, which can be used in a commercial editor such as visual C++. In IMPLC, the logical errors and syntax errors occurred by users are detected, so that the optimal PC control based softPLC can be possible. IMPLC provide easy programming platform to such beginner as well as professionals. The study of code conversion is firstly tried in the world as well as KOREA. I applied IMPLC to 3 steps conveyer belt system. The simulation results say that the debugging steps by IMPLC using multi agents are decreased than the conventional softPLC's.