Conclusions

• The mobile agent paradigm enables new classes of applications, optimizes/simplifies others

• Security has been the primary obstacle

• We demonstrated the feasibility of building a secure mobile agent infrastructure in Java

• Secure agent migration, execution in protection domains

• Protection of host resources against unauthorized, unaccounted usage

• Detection of tampering with agent state

• Primitives for mobile agent programming

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