Agents Unleashed: A Public Domain Look at Agent TechnologyAgents Unleashed: A Public Domain Look at Agent Technology covers details of building a secure agent realm. The book discusses the technology for creating seamlessly integrated networks that allow programs to move from machine to machine without leaving a trail of havoc; as well as the technical details of how an agent will move through the network, prove its identity, and execute its code without endangering the host. The text also describes the organization of the host's work processing an agent; error messages, bad agent expulsion, and errors in XLISP-agents; and the simulators of errors, functions, and resources. Agent language, XLISP, TCL and other languages are also considered. The book further tackles security and encryption; commercial cash; and some ambitious and extreme examples of how people are attempting to create agents. The text also encompasses the instructions on how to use the XLISP agents. Software agents will find the book invaluable. |
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Common terms and phrases
able agent language agent realm agent system algorithms allow bank basic bits blinded signatures block Bondo cadr car car form Chapter command Common Lisp cond eq create cryptography decrypt defined defun defvar described digital cash digital signature disk encryption eq error-type error eval eval-hook-function evaluated execution FA-Error-Function FH-Negotiate-Resources flexible format FR-Dollars FR-Execution-Time get-internal-run-time hash function host programmer implementation incoming agent interact interface interpreter LH-Flights-By-Item-2 LISP machine memory MIME Nathaniel Borenstein negotiate NetBank NetCash nil env null object-oriented operating system package pointer problem protected-variables public key Report-Error error-type body request s-boxes Safe-TCL script setf val evalhook simple Smalltalk Software Agents solution someone standard string structure Telescript time-end UNIX variable Web of Trust XLISP
References to this book
Agent Technology: Foundations, Applications, and Markets Nick Jennings,Michael J. Wooldridge Limited preview - 1998 |