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Dear Editor:
Enclosed is a paper, entitled "Mobile Agents for Network Management." Please accept it as a candidate for publication in the Special Issue of the [name of the journal] on "[theme of the special issue]". Below are our responses to your submission requirements.
1. Title and the central theme of the article.
The necessity of having an effective computer network is rapidly growing alongside the implementation of information technology. Finding an appropriate network management system has become increasingly important today's distributed environment. However, the conventional centralized architecture, which routinely requests the status information of local units by the central server, is not sufficient to manage the growing requests. Recently, a new framework that uses mobile agent technology to assist the distributed management has emerged. The mobile agent reduces network traffic, distributes management tasks, and improves operational performance. Given today's bandwidth demand over the Internet, it is important for the Journal readers to understand this technology and its benefits. This study gives a real-life example of how to use mobile agents for distributed network management. It is the first in the literature that reports the analysis of network performance based on an operational prototype of mobile agent-based distributed network. We strongly believe the contribution of this study warrants its publication in the Journal.4. Names, addresses, and email addresses of four experts in the subject of your paper who are personally unknown to you*, are not members of the editorial board of the journal, are not from your* institution and at least two of whom must be from different countries from you*. (*N.B. "you" refers to all authors of the paper)
Prof. Dr. William Gates
Chair Professor of Information Technology 321 Johnson Hall Premier University Lancaster, NY 00012-6666, USA phone: +1-888-888-8888 fax: +1-888-888-8886 e-mail: [email protected] Expertise: published a related paper ("TCP/IP and OSI: Four Strategies for Interconnection") in CACM, 38(3), pp. 188-198. Relationship: I met Dr. Gate only once at a conference in 1999. I didn’t know him personally. |
Assoc Prof. Dr. John Adams
Director of Network Research Center College of Business Australian University 123, Harbor Drive Sydney, Australia 56789 phone: +61-8-8888-8888 fax: +61-8-8888-8886 e-mail: [email protected] Expertise: published a related paper ("Creating Mobile Agents") in IEEE TOSE, 18(8), pp. 88-98. Relationship: None. I have never met Dr. Adams. |
Assoc Prof. Dr. Chia-Ho Chen
Chair of MIS Department College of Management Open University 888, Putong Road Keelung, Taiwan 100 phone: +886-2-8888-8888 fax: +886-2-8888-8886 e-mail: [email protected] Expertise: published a related paper ("Network Management for E-Commerce") in IJ Electronic Business, 1(4), pp. 18-28. Relationship: Former professor, dissertation chairman. |
Mr. Frank Young
Partner, ABC Consulting 888, Seashore Highway Won Kok, Kowloon Hong Kong phone: +852-8888-8888 fax: +852-8888-8886 e-mail: [email protected] Expertise: Mr. Young provides consulting services extensively to his clients regarding network management practices. Relationship: I have worked with Mr. Young in several consulting projects in the past three years. |
Finally, this paper is our original unpublished work and it has not been submitted to any other journal for reviews.
Sincerely,
Johnny Smith