Alireza Tayebi - IT Engineering Group, Industrial Engineering Department, K.N.Toosi University of Technology

The rapid growth in the Internet users and diverse services have made the researches and practitioners to think of intelligent tools that can assist the users and applications in delivering the required quality of services. One solution is of using Mobile Agent systems which appear to be a suitable approach for a large range of applications, differing in scale and construction. In practice, the mobile-agent system can be implemented on heterogeneous platforms and interoperate with crossplatform applications. This workshop is organized in a way to give an introduction to the mobile agents and their applications in today's world. with more emphasis on mobile agents in virtual organizations. We identify certain advantages of this approach, like simplicity, robustness and flexibility