Mobile Agents provide a practical introduction to mobile agent technology and surveying state of the art in mobile agent research. Practitioners can also gain experience in programming mobile agents through the exploration of the source code for a complete mobile agent environment available through the web site companion. * Outlines the state of the art in the research of mobile agent * Identify the benefits and limitations of current mobile agent technology to help developers understand the possibilities of this new field * Extensive mobile agents web portal (www.mobile-agents.org) with Java source code for the full-quality industrial environment for mobile agents, with the important parts of the open source system