A mobile-agent based architecture for virtual enterprises

Emerging technologies that allow a two-way communication between companies, or among companies and their customers, are changing the rules of the market, facilitating the emergence of virtual entities that have to be supported by some kind of platform. Making it is the main objective of this work, materialized in a Mobile Agent Architecture (MAA) which supports the emerging world of the m-Commerce (mobile-Commerce): the MAgnUM architecture. The MAA’s development was based on the principles of process and knowledge abstraction, compositionality, reuse, formal semantics, formal evaluation, and security.