Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

MASIF The OMG mobile agent system interoperability facility

  • Conference paper
  • First Online:
Mobile Agents (MA 1998)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNCS,volume 1477))

Included in the following conference series:

Abstract

MASIF is a standard for mobile agent systems which has been adopted as an OMG technology. It is an early attempt to standardize an area of industry that, even though popular in the recent past, still has not caught on. In its short history MASIF has raised interest in industry and academia. There are already a number of projects pursuing MASIF reference implementation. MASIF addresses the interfaces between agent systems, not between agent applications and the agent system. Even though the former seem to be more relevant for application developers, it is the latter that impact interoperability between different agent systems. This paper describes two sets of interfaces that constitute MASIF: MAFAgentSystem and MAFFinder (the acronym MAF is used for historical reasons). MASIF extensively addresses security. The paper provides a brief description of MASIF and its interfaces, data types and data structures.

Danny Lange was with IBM during the initial part of MASIF

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution

Institutional subscriptions

Preview

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

References

  1. OMG MASIF, OMG TC Document ORBOS/97-10-05, also available from http://www.opengroup.org/~dejan/maf/draft10.

    Google Scholar 

  2. OMG, The Common Object Request Broker: Architecture and Specification, Revision 2.0, July 1995.

    Google Scholar 

  3. OMG, Common Facilities RFP 3, OMG TC Document 95-11-3, November 3, 1995.

    Google Scholar 

  4. Aglets Workbench (http://www.trl.ibm.co.jp/aglets).

    Google Scholar 

  5. Mubot: (http://www.crystaliz.com).

    Google Scholar 

  6. Agent-Tcl, http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~agent/.

    Google Scholar 

  7. Odyssey: (http://www.genmagic.com/agents/).

    Google Scholar 

  8. Mobile Objects and Agents, Proc. of the COOTS’98 (http://www.opengroup.org/RI/ja-va/moa/).

    Google Scholar 

  9. CORBA Security Services Specification.

    Google Scholar 

  10. Common Secure Interoperability Specification (CSI).

    Google Scholar 

  11. ACTS Domain 5, Agent Cluster Baseline Document, editor T. Magedanz, January 1998.

    Google Scholar 

  12. Grasshopper, http://www.ikv.de/products/grasshopper.html.

    Google Scholar 

  13. FIPA http://drogo.cselt.it/fipa/.

    Google Scholar 

  14. Chang, D., Covaci, S., “The OMG Mobile Agent Facility: A Submission”, Proc. of MA’97, April 1997, pp 98–110.

    Google Scholar 

  15. White, J., “Telescript Technology: Mobile Agents”, General Magic White Paper.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Author notes

  1. John Campbell

    Present address: Sun Microsystems, East, USA

  2. Barry Friedman

    Present address: Cisco, USA

  3. Cynthia Tham

    Present address: Freegate, USA

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Crystaliz, USA

    Sankar Virdhagriswaran

  2. General Magic, Inc., USA

    Barry Friedman, Danny Lange, Cynthia Tham & Jim White

  3. GMD Fokus, USA

    Markus Breugst, Ingo Busse & Stefan Covaci

  4. IBM, USA

    Kazuya Kosaka, Kouichi Ono & Mitsuru Oshima

  5. Open Group, USA

    Dejan Milojicic & John Campbell

Authors
  1. Dejan Milojicic
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Markus Breugst
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Ingo Busse
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. John Campbell
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  5. Stefan Covaci
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  6. Barry Friedman
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  7. Kazuya Kosaka
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  8. Danny Lange
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  9. Kouichi Ono
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  10. Mitsuru Oshima
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  11. Cynthia Tham
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  12. Sankar Virdhagriswaran
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  13. Jim White
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Editor information

Kurt Rothermel Fritz Hohl

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 1998 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

About this paper

Cite this paper

Milojicic, D. et al. (1998). MASIF The OMG mobile agent system interoperability facility. In: Rothermel, K., Hohl, F. (eds) Mobile Agents. MA 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1477. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0057648

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0057648

  • Published:

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-540-64959-5

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-540-49817-9

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation