A Common Base for Building Secure Mobile Agent Middleware Systems

The Agent Operating System (AOS) provides the basic functional- ity needed for secure and reliable mobile agent platforms: support for secure communication, secure agent storage and migration, and minimal primitives for agent life-cycle management. Designed as a layer between local operating sys- tems and higher level agent platform middleware, it supports interoperability be- tween agent platforms and between different implementations of AOS itself. AOS has been tested on interoperability, both with regard to different higher-layer mid- dleware platforms and interoperability between two implementations of AOS in C++ and Java.