Created as part of the Master of information Technology and Master of Applied Information Technology Units - 2009

The change to the assessment of FIT5031 is to be implemented effective from Semester 1 2012 to include an exam component. This change brings the assessment of the unit in line with the General Guidelines for the Standards of Graduate Units (http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/about/committees-groups/ade/docs/guidelines-for-grad-unit-fec409-approved.doc):

"Typically a level 5 unit would be expected to be assessed by a two-hour or three-hour exam of at least 50% weight and two major non-examination assignments that comprise no more than 50% of the unit assessment."

07/12/2017 - Unit disestablished at FEC 5/17 Item 7.3.

This unit is one of four core units in the Mobile Distributed Systems specialisation in the Master of Information Technology (MIT) and the Master of Applied Information Technology (MAIT). It is also available as an elective in all FIT Masters.

At the completion of this unit students will:

• be conversant with the principles and theoretical concepts of mobile software agents;
• appreciate models and approaches to building mobile agent systems;
• demonstrate knowledge of different mobile agent toolkits and development environments;
• utilise techniques for achieving mobile agent communication and coordination;
• understand security issues in mobile agent systems;
• select and apply appropriate tools for a particular application;
• foster critical and independent analysis of how mobile agents can be applied to distributed computing applications.

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This unit focuses theoretical concepts, applications and research issues of mobile software agents. Students will learn techniques to design and develop mobile agent applications. A number of different toolkits/development environments will be discussed and used for the practical component of the unit. The unit analyses mobile software agents technology with respect to their use in different application domains - focusing on pervasive applications, electronic commerce/web services and distributed data/network management. Advanced research issues/topics such as communication, coordination, security and trust for mobile agent systems will also be presented.

On-campus

In-semester assessment: 50%; Examination (3 hours): 50%

6

2 hrs lectures/wk, 2 hrs laboratories/wk

Crash and burn lab required

FIT

For MAIT students, FIT9017, FIT9018, FIT9019, FIT9030, FIT9020 and FIT4037