Mobile Agents Security

- Penulis: Wahyuning Diah
- Bahasa: Inggris
- Jumlah Halaman: 16
- Format file: PDF
- Publisher: IlmuKomputer.Com
- Tahun terbit: Januari 2004
- Download makalah lengkap: diah-agent.zip

In general, the term of agent means a person that does a task on behalf another person that assigns it to (representative of). The example can be a real estate agent, a travel agent, an insurance agent and many more. The reason why someone delegates that task is to make the task easier and be completed soon. For example, if someone wants to buy a house, he can search the house through the real estate magazine, find out about the house by calling the owner and then see it. Instead of searching the house one by one, he can come to a real estate agent and choose several interesting houses and find out all the information about those houses from the real estate agent. This information finding agency is really a big help, since this saves much of his time and money.

In distributed computing area, there is a concept called mobile agent. The force driving behind the mobile agent technology is the growth of Internet. The Internet ability to connect millions of computer in the whole world makes it to be the perfect place to distribute data among them, and the mobile agent technology is one of the ideas to make the distribution data becomes more valuable (Murch and Johnson 1999 p.14). There are some other benefits that enforce the development of mobile agent such as: it reduces the communication cost in the network by filtering data transferred from the server (Baumann et al. 1997), it can be used to solve complex and big problems that needs distributed computing (Nwana and Ndumu 1997 p.8) and also it can act as a personal assistant that can learn from the user or from other agents (Maes 1994).