It includes the following articles. Targeting the Needs of Mobile Computers , David Kotz, Robert Gray, Saurab Nog, Daniela Rus, Sumit Chawla, and George Cybenko. What's an Agent . Any Client, Any Server , Miroslav Benda. A Look at Mitsubishi's Concordia , Joseph Kiniry and Daniel Zimmerman.
Sessions establish either actively or passively a context for inter-agent interactions.
Communication partners are addressed by globallyunique agent identifiers or via badges. Communication in sessions is based on RPC or message mechanisms. Global event management addresses the need for anonymous communication. Event managers are employed as a synchronization meanswithin agent groups. Based on this approach, we introduce synchronization objects, - active components that offer varioussynchronization services.