Writings

In a previous life I was an academic and wrote a few things. Below is the full list of my publications. If you want my favorites, I suggest reading the CIA-2000 paper and the AAAI-99 papers. If you want the real technical stuff, read the journal papers. You might also be interested in the first three chapters of my thesis which encapsulate my whole philosophy on mobile agents and code mobility.

PhD Thesis

My PhD thesis, entitled “On the Structuring of Distributed Systems: The Argument for Mobility“, Loughborough University, 2000.

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Proceedings

I organised and co-chaired (with Nelson Minar) the MAC3 workshop, part of the Autonomous Agents ‘99 conference. You can get the proceedings here.

Journal Papers

Using Mobile Agents To Improve the Alignment Between Manufacturing and its IT Support Systems

Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Vol 27, pp 45-57, 1999.

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Manufacturing System Integration and Agility: Can Mobile Agents Help?

2001, Journal of Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, 8 (1), 69-80.

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Building Agile Systems with Mobile Code

2001, Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems Journal. ISSN: 1387-2532 (Paper) 1573-7454 (Online)
DOI: 10.1023/A:1012758908423, Issue: Volume 4, Number 4, Pages: 293 – 310

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Refereed Conferences

Mobile Information Agents in Cyberspace: State of the Art and Visions

In Proc. of Cooperating Information Agents (CIA-2000)

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Mobile Agent Technology in Support of Sales Order Processing in the Virtual Enterprise

Proc. of the BASYS’98 – 3rd IEEE/IFIP Int’l Conf. on Information Technology for BALANCED AUTOMATION SYSTEMS in Manufacturing. Eds. Camarinha-Matos, LM., Afsarmanesh, H. and Marik, V. Kluwer Academic Publishers, August 1998, ISBN 0-412-84670-5, p23

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Aglets: Enabling the Virtual Enterprise

Proc. of Mesela ‘97 – 1st Int’l Conf. on Managing Enterprises – Stakeholders, Engineering, Logistics and Achievement. Eds. Wright, D et al. Mechanical Engineering Publications Ltd, July 1997, ISBN 1 86058 066 1, p425

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Workshops and Symposiums

Mobile Agents: Are They Useful for Establishing a Virtual Presence in Space?

In the “Agents with Adjustable Autonomy” symposia, part of the AAAI 1999 Spring Symposium Series.

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Mobile Agent Technology Enabling the Virtual Enterprise: A Pattern for DataBase Query

Presented at the Agent Based Manufacturing workshop, part of Agents ‘98. Appears in the workshop notes.

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