NOMADS: Toward an Environment for Strong and Safe Agent Mobility1

NOMADS is a mobile agent system that aims to support strong mobility (i.e., the ability to capture and transfer the full execution state of mobile agents) and safe Java agent execution (i.e., the ability to control resources consumed by agents, facilitating guarantees of quality of service while protecting against denial of service attacks). The NOMADS environment is composed of two parts: an agent execution environment called OASIS and a new Java compatible Virtual Machine (VM) called the AromaVM. The combination of OASIS and the AromaVM aims to provide significant enhancements over today’s Java agent environments.