This book introduces the concept and structure of mobile agent systems and discusses various attacks and countermeasures. The emphasis is on the formal modeling and analysis of secure mobile agent systems and their applications.

New paradigms can popularize old technologies. A new \standalone" paradigm, the electronic desktop, popularized the personal computer. A new \connected" paradigm, the web browser, popularized the Internet.

... Agent Management. The Microserver. Management, monitoring and debugging in multi-agent systems pose serious challenges. Agent debugging and monitoring should be done with as little intrusion as possible, agent management should be ...

Students and researchers can use the book as an introduction to the concepts and possibilities of this field and as an overview of ongoing research.

While previous research has focused on the development of formal and informal approaches to analyze and specify Multi-Agent Systems, this book focuses on the development of programming languages and tools which not only support MAS ...

As an example of mobile agents application fields, this book discusses how they can be effective in implementing data mining and information retrieval systems.