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Distributed Computing and Mobile Agent Technology: 3rd Party Research
A Comparison Of Mobile Agent And Client-Server Paradigms For Information Retrieval Tasks In Virtual Enterprises	Download Whitepaper
Author: Ravi Jain, Farooq Anjum and Amjad Umar, Applied Research Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

Mobile Agent versus Client/Server Performance: Scalability in an Information Retrieval Task	Download Whitepaper
Author: Gray, Kotz, Peterson, Dartmouth College; Barton, Chacón, Gerken, Hofmann, Lockheed-Martin Advanced Technology Laboratory; Bradshaw, Breedy, Jeffers, and Suri, Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Univ. of West Florida

Internet Agents for Effective Collaboration	Download Whitepaper
Author: Finin, A. Joshi, L. Kagal, O. Ratsimor, S. Avancha, V. Korolev, H. Chen, F. Perich, and R.S. Cost, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering University of Maryland

Dynamic Service Discovery for Mobile Computing: Intelligent Agents Meet Jini in the Aether	Download Whitepaper
Author: Harry Chen, Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering University of Maryland

Intelligent Agents for Mobile and Embedded Devices	Download Whitepaper
Author: Finin, A. Joshi, L. Kagal, O. Ratsimor, S. Avancha, V. Korolev, H. Chen, F. Perich, and R.S. Cost, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering University of Maryland

Brain Meets Brawn: Why Grid and Agents Need Each Other	Download Whitepaper
Author: Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory & University of Chicago; Nicholas R. Jennings, Electronics & Comp. Science, University of Southampton; Carl Kesselman, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California

Mobile Agents: What about Them? Did They Deliver what They Promised? Are They Here to Stay?	Download Whitepaper
Author: George Samaras Dept of Computer Science, University of Cyprus. Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2004)

Smart Agent Mobility Facility	Download Whitepaper
Author: Johnny Wong, Guy Helmer, Venkatraman Naganathan, Sriniwas Polavarapu, Vasant Honovar, Les Miller, Department of Computer Science Iowa State University

Mobile Agents: Overcoming Early Hype and a Bad Name	Download Whitepaper
Author: Robert S. Gray, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College

Mobile Agent Data Integrity Using Multi-Agent Architecture	Download Whitepaper
Author: J. Todd McDonald, Alec Yasinsac, Willard C. Thompson III, Dept. of Computer Science Florida State University

Mobile Agents: Can They Assist with Context Awareness	Download Whitepaper
Author: Arkady Zaslavsky, School of Computer Science and Software Engineering Monash University, Australia

The Fifth IEEE International Conference on Mobile Agents- Agenda and Abstracts	Website & Whitepapers
Sponsored by: Dartmouth College

Mobile Agent on the SARA Digital Library	Download Whitepaper
Author: Yanyan Yang, Omer F. Rana, David W. Walker, Christ Georgousopoulos, Roy Williams, Center for Advanced Computing Research, California Institute of Technology

Voyager Mobile Agent Technology
Beyond the Internet: Building Location-Based Services for Multiplatform Device Communities	Download Whitepaper
Synopsis: Autonomous intelligent devices communicating, collaborating and discovering each other is a world vision hitherto relegated to the Sci-Fi genre. Yet, with recent breakthroughs in intelligent middleware, collaborative device communities that communicate in real-time and push opt-in content without requiring the user to “Google” for, or even think about, are possible today. Read this white paper to learn how to create these intelligent apps and why Google, Microsoft and AT&T should take notice. Authors: Bob Deanna and Victoria Romero-Gomez, Recursion Software

An empirical study of distribution based on Voyager: A performance analysis	Download Whitepaper
Synopsis: The paper describes the model, implementation and experimental evaluation of a distributed Kohonen Neural Network application (Kohonen Application using Voyager). The aim of this research is to empirically verify the suitability and the performance of a distributed application based on mobile objects and, in perspective, intelligent agents. Author: Sérgio Viademonte, Frada Burstein Caulfield School of Information Technology, Monash University, Australia; Fábio G. Beckenkamp C. Doppler Lab for Software Research University of Constance - Germany

Benchmarking Mobile Agent Systems [Voyager, Aglets, and Concordia]	Download Whitepaper
Synopsis: In this paper, we introduce a higherarchical framework for the quantitative evaluation of mobile-agent middleware platforms. We implement benchmarks based on three mobile agent platforms (Aglets, Concordia and Voyager) and run numerous experiments to validate our framework and compare the agent middleware environments quantitatively. Author: Marios Dikaiakos, Melinos Kyriakou, and George Samaras, Dept of Computer Science, University of Cyprus.

Mobile Agents for World Wide Web Distributed Database Access	Download Whitepaper
Author: Stavros Papastavrou, George Samaras, and Evaggelia Pitoura, Member, IEEE

Voyager - SOA without all the Framework Baggage	Download Whitepaper
Synopsis: Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is now the framework for most new development. SOA is being added to almost every application. Historically, there have not been many choices to accomplish the goal. Among them which one gets you there with the least risk of failure? Could Voyager® provide a simple and better SOA? This paper discusses using Voyager to solve problems without wasting your time learning overly complex SOA code and configurations. Author: Daniel Brookshier, Java Architect turbogeek@cluck.com

Voyager Architecture Best Practices	Download Whitepaper
Synopsis: Java is the language and environment of choice today for developing enterprise software systems. Voyager is a Java-centric platform for developing distributed software systems. This paper describes some architectural best practices when developing software systems with Voyager. These best practices are described in the context of Voyager features and capabilities. Author: Thomas Wheeler, Recursion Software

Grid Computing with Voyager	Download Whitepaper
Synopsis: The premise of a grid is the ability of the services in the grid to effectively utilize the available resources. It is important to have an underlying service in the platform that can relocate applications dynamically. Voyager mobility makes it possible to dynamically relocate applications across the grid without disrupting other services. Author: Thomas Wheeler, Recursion Software

Reducing Development Effort using the Voyager ORB	Download Whitepaper
Synopsis: This paper walks though building a simple client-server program with both CORBA and RMI and contrasts this with using Voyager to more easily and elegantly complete the same task. CORBA and RMI require special code in the interfaces and implementation classes to be remote-enabled and the use of utility programs to generate helper classes. They require you to do work outside the source code of the application. Voyager is non-intrusive: it requires no modification of interfaces and implementation classes, and automatically generates helper classes at runtime. Voyager lets you stay focused on the source code. Author: Thomas Wheeler, Recursion Software

High Volume Transaction Processing in Enterprise Applications	Download Whitepaper
Synopsis: Performance and scalability continue to be critical factors in the development and deployment of enterprise software. Web Services technologies require more processing power and bandwidth than binary protocols due to the use of XML as an underlying encoding. Today's implementation of Web Services may not provide the performance and scalability some systems demand. As part of Recursion Software's Adaptive Technology Approach, our products support a binary protocol in addition to the standard Web Services protocols. This paper documents the performance and scalability of Voyager's binary protocol (Release 4.8). Author: Thomas Wheeler, Recursion Software

Voyager Performance Benchmark	Download Whitepaper
Synopsis: Performance and scalability are important considerations in distributed software. Middleware is a critical component in achieving this goal. This paper compares performance and scalability of Voyager with Java RMI. Voyager clearly outperforms RMI in scalability while performance degradation was nearly linear. Author: Recursion Software

Voyager JMS Integration: Persistent, Reliable Messaging	Download Whitepaper
Synopsis: Voyager Messaging is an implementation of the Sun JMS 1.0.2b specification, based on Voyager, Recursion Software's distributed computing platform. The following provides an introduction to messaging middleware and explores two of its common applications. The following also illustrates the function and value of three key features of Voyager Messaging: shared persistence architecture, client persistence, and message batching. Author: Ron Hough, Recursion Software

Developing Peer Applications	Download Whitepaper
Synopsis: Over the past few years, innovative collaborative technologies have appeared enabling people to join together and participate in new ways. Distributed computing projects such as SETI@home have empowered users to donate the unused computing cycles of their own systems to work on computationally large problems. Instant messaging services allow millions of people to communicate and collaborate in real time. Peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing, through applications like Gnutella and Freenet, has offered a radically new mechanism for Internet users to find and share files directly with each other. Voyaver is a true P2P computing platform that makes it easy to build a wide network of distributed services and applications in which every device is addressable as a peer and peers can easily and dynamically communicate and interoperate. Author: Thomas Wheeler, Recursion Software

Targeted Industry Applications of Mobile Agents and Voyager: Healthcare, Finance, Energy, and Defense, Homeland Security, & Defense Contractors
Healthcare

Context-aware mobile agents for decision-making support in healthcare emergency applications	Download Whitepaper
Author: F. Burstein, A. Zaslavsky, and N. Arora, Caulfield School of Information Technology, Monash University, Australia

Interoperability in Heterogeneous Medical Information Systems Using Smart Mobile Agents	Download Whitepaper
Author: Bhavna Orgun, Department of Computing, Division of Information and Communications Sciences, Macquarie University, Australia

TA Collaborative System to Support the Home-Care Treatment of Cancer Patients via Mobile Devices	Download Whitepaper
Author: Dr. George Samaras Department of Computer Science University of Cyprus

Finance

GigaMobile - Agent Technology for Designing Personalized Mobile Service Brokerage	Download Whitepaper
Authors: Morteza S. Bargh, Ronald van Eijk, Jeroen Hamers, Tomas Klos, TNO-TPD, TICO, Telmatica Institute


Energy

Maximizing Oil & Gas Asset Performance Using a Distributed Knowledge Network	Download Whitepaper
Synopsis: The exploration and production (E & P) or upstream sector has long been information intensive. Indeed one of today's major service companies was built on data acquisition and information processing. Sometimes referred to as the digital oilfield, the drive to automate remote oil and gas operations, including drilling, production, transport, and project management have evolved into a fundamental business process. This paper discusses Recursion Software's Voyager Edge intelligent agent software solution that can be embedded into a wireless mobile mesh network and combined with software defined radio and Ultra Wide Band technology to enable a distributed knowledge network with an "intelligent" prioritization system. Voyager transforms the way to investigate, comprehend and respond to oil and gas field data being gathered remotely from widely distributed systems and heterogeneous sensor environments. Authors: A. Rick Habayeb, Ph.D., Technology Research Professor and Program Manager at Virginia Tech, and Bob DeAnna, CTO, Recursion Software
Authors: A. Rick Habayeb, Ph.D. and Bob DeAnna
Dept. of Defense, Homeland Security, and Defense Contractors

A Distributed Knowledge Network for the Secure Border Initiative SBInet	Download Whitepaper
Author: By Greg Cowin, Recursion Software

Automated Discovery of Concise Predictive Rules for Intrusion Detection	Download Whitepaper
Author: Guy Helmer, Johnny Wong, Vasant Honavar, Les Miller, Department of Computer Science Iowa State University

A Software Fault Tree Approach to Requirements Analysis of an Intrusion Detection System	Download Whitepaper
Author: Guy Helmer, Johnny Wong, Mark Slagell, Vasant Honavar, Les Miller, Robyn Lutz, Department of Computer Science Iowa State University

Software Fault Tree and Colored Petri Net Based Specification, Design and Implementation of Agent-Based Intrusion Detection Systems	Download Whitepaper
Author: Guy Helmer, Johnny Wong, Mark Slagell, Vasant Honavar, Les Miller, Yanxin Wang, Department of Computer Science Iowa State University and Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Lightweight Agents for Intrusion Detection	Download Whitepaper
Author: Guy Helmer, Johnny S.K. Wong, Vasant Honavar, Less Miller, Yanxin Wang, Department of Computer Science Iowa State University

Voyager and Software Agents Applied to Simulation-Based Training and Exercise Management	Download Whitepaper
Synopsis: An Incident Management System, real or simulated, is an exercise within a distributed environment with many diverse clients (first responders, agencies, sensors, databases, etc.) networked over distances by radio or computer. Ideally, a wireless system that is seamlessly scaleable and provides high-level security without absorbing huge amounts of bandwidth can be adapted to the needs of the National Incident Management System (NIMS) immediately, and in the near future enhanced with additional components to broaden the scope of such a powerful tool. This paper discussed how Voyager®, a distributed development platform for Java™ and .NET applications, provides the necessary data communications infrastructure for the NIMS simulation-based training. Author: James C. Bender, M.S., Recursion Software

Interoperability Solutions for Homeland Security Using Voyager	Download Whitepaper
Synopsis: The problems faced by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) require the development of advanced solutions based on stable, practical and innovative technologies. DHS brings together an unprecedented number of systems under one roof. Interoperability is a key challenge that these solutions must address. This paper shows how Voyager can be leveraged to solve such problems by providing extensive support for interoperability with other systems, advanced features, and a modular architecture. It leverages Java features and semantics to provide a transparent mechanism for remote-enabling Java applications. Author: Thomas Wheeler and Michael Nork, Recursion Software