Karmouch, Ahmed,Guennoun, Mouhcine.2009-03-232009-03-2320012001Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 40-05, page: 1257.9780612660465http://hdl.handle.net/10393/9395http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-16289Personal Mobility Management System, a distributed application developed at the Multimedia & Mobile Agent Research Laboratory, allows users to move across a virtual network of predefined sites. Each site provides personalized services to its visitors. The purpose of this thesis is to introduce an agent-based architecture to create and manage policies on each site involved in the virtual network. The architecture defines an administrative infrastructure that allows each site to restrict access to the local resources and to sensitive information by visiting users. These restrictions are expressed in terms of policies that are stored in a policy server at each site. Policies are also related to the privacy and ownership levels attached to resources as well as to profiles of visiting users. The thesis presents a model to detect conflicts that may occur between different agents as a result of rules imposed by different policies. These conflicts are resolved through negotiation between agents.88 p.Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.Thesis