• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.1491-1494
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• 2005

이동 컴퓨팅 시스템에 결함 내성 기능을 제공하기 위한 많은 방법들이 제안되어졌다. 그 중 하나가 이동 에이전트를 이용하여 이동 호스트의 검사점과 메시지 로그를 분산 관리하는 방법이다. 이동 에이전트 기반의 결함 내성 서비스는 기존 기지국 기반의 서비스에 비해, 비동기적인 복구 정보의 이동 및 복구 정보의 유연한 분산 관리 등의 장점이 있으나, 이동 에이전트 자체의 이동 비용 등이 문제가 될 수 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 기존의 기지국 기반 복구 정보 관리 기법과 이동 에이전트 기반 복구 정보 관리 기법의 성능을 비교 평가한다. 특히, 다양한 시스템 환경에서 이동 에이전트 자체 비용이 결함 내성 서비스의 성능에 미치는 영향을 분석한다.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.30 no.5
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• pp.614-620
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• 2003

As the proliferation of Internet, mobile agent related technologies are examined for possible growth and evolution. In information retrieval, network and distributed system management, and electronic commerce, mobile agent is more flexible than the traditional communication paradigm. Despite the performance benefits, mobile agent is not used widely in the market because it is very vulnerable to a variety of attacks. In many studies related the security vulnerability for a mobile agent, the high security causes the performance to degrade. In this paper, we propose and evaluate the efficient security model for mobile agent using TDGM(Trusted Domain & Guide Manager), which provides three kinds of services : the trusted domain management, the security service and the travel plan guide. The result clearly shows that this model provides high security and minimizes the performance degradation.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.29 no.1_2
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• pp.30-41
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• 2002

We focus on the mobile agents which are considered as new paradigm to solve information retrieval of large volumes of data in the distributed and heterogeneous environment. The mobile agent moves the computation to data instead of large volumes of data to computations. In this paper, we propose an information retrieval model, which can effectively search data in the distributed and heterogeneous environment, using mobile agents. Our model is applied to the design and implementation of an Q&A(Question and Answer) retrieval system. Our Q&A retrieval system, called QASSMA(Q&A Search System using Mobile Agents), uses mobile agents to retrieve articles from Q&A boards and newsgroups that exist in the heterogeneous and distributed environment. QASSMA has the following features and advantages. First, the mobile retrieval agent moves to the destination server to retrieve articles to reduce the retrieval time by eliminating data traffics from the server to the client host. Also it can reduce the traffic that was occurred in the centralized network system, and reduce the usage of resources by sending its agent and running in the destination host. Finally, the mobile retrieval agent of QASSMA can add and update dynamically the class file according to its retrieval environment, and support other retrieval manner. In this paper, we have shown that our Q&A retrieval system using mobile agents is more efficient than the retrieval system using static agents by our experiments.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.27 no.6C
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• pp.535-543
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• 2002

In order to overcome disadvantages of existing centralized network management systems that use simple objects, dynamic object platforms are proposed as alternative systems. So the distributed network management systems are implemented using various distributed platform such as CORBA and Java-RMI. Subsequently mobile agent-based platforms are proposed. The mobile agent-based platform can additionally provide flexibility and scalability to network management system that CORBA or Java-RMI based platforms do not support. In this paper, we address an architecture to solve the problem of the occurrence of additional traffic by using mobile agent and to save resources of network element. Our proposal in this paper is an efficient network management architecture using motile agents. And we make use of mobile agents for minimizing of traffic that can happen when mobile agents moves. Also we design agents using information architecture of TMN for efficient resource management of network element and improvement of operation performance.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.597-600
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• 2001

멀티에이전트 시스템은 분산적이고 개방적인 인터넷 환경에 잘 부합된다. 멀티 에이전트 시스템에서는 각 에이전트들이 자신의 목적을 위해 행동하기 때문에 에이전트간 충돌이 발생하는 경우에 조정을 통해 협력할 수 있어야 한다. 그러나 기존의 멀티 에이전트 시스템에서의 에이전트 간 협력 방법에 관한 연구 방법들은 동적 환경에서 서로 다른 목적을 갖는 에이전트간의 협동 문제를 올바로 해결할 수 없다는 문제가 있었다. 본 논문에서는 신경망과 강화학습을 이용하여 목적 패턴을 정확히 결정할 수 없는 복잡하고 동적인 환경에 멀티 에이전트의 시스템 모델을 제안한다.

• The Journal of Engineering Research
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.11-22
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• 2004

A distributed constraint satisfaction problem (distributed CSP) is a constraint satisfaction problem(CSP) in which variables and constraints are distributed among multiple automated agents. ACSP is a problem to find a consistent assignment of values to variables. Even though the definition of a CSP is very simple, a surprisingly wide variety of AI problems can be formalized as CSPs. Similarly, various application problems in DAI (Distributed AI) that are concerned with finding a consistent combination of agent actions can be formalized as distributed CAPs. In recent years, many new backtracking algorithms for solving distributed CSPs have been proposed. But most of all, they have common drawbacks that the algorithm assumes the priority of agents is static. In this thesis, we establish a basic algorithm for solving distributed CSPs called dynamic priority search algorithm that is more efficient than common backtracking algorithms in which the priority order is static. In this algorithm, agents act asynchronously and concurrently based on their local knowledge without any global control, and have a flexible organization, in which the hierarchical order is changed dynamically, while the completeness of the algorithm is guaranteed. And we showed that the dynamic priority search algorithm can solve various problems, such as the distributed 200-queens problem, the distributed graph-coloring problem that common backtracking algorithm fails to solve within a reasonable amount of time. The experimental results on example problems show that this algorithm is by far more efficient than the backtracking algorithm, in which the priority order is static. The priority order represents a hierarchy of agent authority, i.e., the priority of decision-making. Therefore, these results imply that a flexible agent organization, in which the hierarchical order is changed dynamically, actually performs better than an organization in which the hierarchical order is static and rigid. Furthermore, we describe that the agent can be available to hold multiple variables in the searching scheme.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.425-430
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• 2005

Many problems can be formulated in terms nf graphs and thus solved by graph-theoretic algorithms. This paper is concerned with finding paths between nodes over the distributed and overlapped graphs. The proposed method allows multiple agents to cooperate to find paths without merging the distributed graphs. For each graph there is a designated agent which is charged of providing path-finding service for hot graph and initiating the path-finding tasks of which path starts from the graph. The proposed method earlier on constructs an abstract graph so-called viewgraph for the distributed overlapped graphs and thus enables to extract the information about how to guide the path finding over the graphs. The viewgraph is shared by all agents which determine how to coordinate other agents for the purpose of finding paths. Each agent maintains the shortest path information among the nodes which are placed in different overlapped subgraphs of her graph. Once an agent is asked to get a path from a node on her graph to another node on another's graph, she directs other agents to provide the necessary information for finding paths.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.26 no.10A
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• pp.1706-1716
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• 2001

이동에이전트 시스템은 기하급수적으로 증가하는 분산처리 환경과 이동컴퓨팅에 기여할 수 있다는 점으로 인해 주목받고 있는 기술이지만, 심각한 보안문제를 안고 있다. 본 논문에서는 ID 기반의 디지털 다중 서명 기술을 이용하여 이동 에이전트 시스템의 보안문제에 대한 효율적인 해결책을 제시하고자 한다. 이를 위하여 본 연구는 이동 에이전트 시스템이 가질 수 있는 보안 위협 요소를 분석하였다. 이러한 보안 위협은 적절한 보안 기술의 적용으로 해결될 수 있을 것으로 판단된다. 따라서 본 논문은 여러 사용자가 공동의 메시지를 전자적으로 서명하는 보안 기술인 디지털 다중 서명(Digital Multi-signature)기법과 ID에 기반한 키(key) 분배 기법을 이용하여 이동 에이전트 시스템의 보안 문제를 해결하기 위한 새로운 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 이동 에이전트 보안 프로토콜은 키 분배 및 관리의 단순화, 인증 절차의 단순화, 에이전트 실행 플랫폼의 인증과 송수신 부인 방지 기능을 제공, 생명성을 보장, 실행 결과 데이터의 기밀성, 무결성의 보장한다. 그리고 에이전트 실해의 전 단계를 매 시스템마다 검증함으로써 변경 또는 삭제시 곧바로 탐지한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2001.10c
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• pp.550-552
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• 2001

최근에 네트워크 환경이 좋아지고 인터넷 사용이 급증함에 따라 이동 에이전트(Mobile Agent) 기술이 정보검색, 네트워크 관리 , 전자상거래, 병렬/분산처리 등의 분야에 널리 활용되고 있다. 이동 에이전트 시스템에서 전체 수행시간은 이동 에이전트의 코드 크기, 이동 에이전트의 데이터 크기 , 이동 에이전트의 전송 방법에 따라 좌우된다. 본 논문에서는 이동 에이전트 환경에 참여하는 모든 노드들에게 보다 빠르게 에이전트를 전송하는 방법들을 실험적으로 평가하고 에이전트 이동시 노드의 결함(Fault)이 발생할 때 그 해결방안을 연구한화. 에이전트 전송 및 결함 허용에 대한 성능평가는 IBM's Aglets Software Development Kit 환경을 이용하였다.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.79-87
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• 1999

This paper proposes a searching system with a mobile agent which retrieve data from the distributed hosts. The proposed system dispatched the movable objects, so called AGLET, to the distributed hosts in order to perform a task given by a client or a server. The network of the existing system must not be disturbed during a task is performing. However our system has the strong point that a task can be performed even if the network is disconnected on the way. When the network is disconnected, the system can get the results later after the network system is connected again. Designing the system has been done by using UML(Unified Modeling Language) which is a standardized object-oriented modeling language. AGLET, a pure JAVA product of IBM, is used for the mobile agent.