Mobile Agents technology opens up new avenues in personalizing and customizing the web experience of users. It provides new
possibilities for deploying distributed applications using existing web infrastructure. One of the reasons why mobile agents
are not yet popular on the web is due to the lack of an easily deployable framework that would facilitate their existence.
Existing mobile agent systems usually require heavy infrastructure that lacks interoperability if deployed on the Internet.
In this paper, we describe aZIMAS (almost Zero Infrastructure Mobile Agent System) — a framework that will enable the execution
of lightweight mobile agents on the Internet and remove some of the constraints imposed by existing systems. aZIMAS uses existing
platform independent protocols like HTTP to achieve code mobility and agent interaction. Our approach involves adding a minimal
infrastructure layer, called Agent Environment (AE), over existing web servers and using web browsers as clients. By basing
our framework firmly on existing web servers and browsers, we hope to leverage the pervasiveness of web browsers and servers
and achieve similar pervasiveness for mobile agents.
Keywords Mobile Agents - Agent Systems - World Wide Web