Paper Info
Title
MASIF: the OMG mobile agent system interoperability facility
Abstract
MASIF is a standard for mobile agent systems which has been adopted as an OMG technology. It is an early attempt to standardize an area of industry that, even though popular in the recent past, still has not caught on. In its short history MASIF has raised interest in industry and academia. There are already a number of projects pursuing MASIF reference imple- mentation. MASIF addresses the interfaces between agent systems, not be- tween agent applications and the agent system. Even though the former seem to be more relevant for application developers, it is the latter that im- pact interoperability between different agent systems. This paper describes two sets of interfaces that constitute MASIF: MAFAgentSystem and MA- FFinder (the acronym MAF is used for historical reasons). MASIF exten- sively addresses security. The paper provides a brief description of MASIF and its interfaces, data types and data structures.
Year
DOI
Venue
1998
10.1007/BF01324942
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Keywords
DocType
Volume
data structure,data type,application development
Conference
2
Issue
ISBN
Citations 
2
0-201-37928-7
97
PageRank 
References 
Authors
13.61
4
13
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dejan Milojicic183470.42
Markus Breugst211717.35
Ingo Busse324327.10
John Campbell49713.61
Stefan Covaci519735.07
Barry Friedman69713.61
Kazuya Kosaka715819.75
Danny B. Lange855769.14
Kouichi Ono915723.32
Mitsuru Oshima1021322.10
Cynthia Tham119713.61
Sankar Virdhagriswaran1211516.06
Jim White139713.61