A Common Base for Building Secure Mobile Agent Middleware

The Agent Operating System (AOS) provides the basic functio ality needed for secure and reliable mobile agent platforms: s upport for secure communication, secure agent storage and migration, and min imal primitives for agent life-cycle management. Designed as a layer between lo cal operating systems and higher level agent platform middleware, it support s interoperability between agent platforms and between different implementatio ns of AOS itself. AOS has been tested on interoperability, both with regard to dif ferent higher-layer middleware platforms and interoperability between two implem entations of AOS in C++ and Java.