Mobile Maude is a Mobile Agent language extending the rewriting logic language Maude and supporting mobile computation. Mobile Maude uses reflection to obtain a simple and general declarative mobile language design and makes possible strong assurances of mobile agent behavior. The two key notions are processes and mobile objects. Processes are located computational environments where mobile objects can reside. Mobile objects have their own code, can move between different processes in different locations, and can communicate asynchronously with each other by means of messages. Mobile Maude's key novel characteristics include

1. reflection as a way of endowing mobile objects with "higher-order" capabilities
2. object orientation and asynchronous message passing
3. high-performance implementation of the underlying Maude basis
4. simple semantics without loss in the expressive power of application code
5. security mechanisms supporting authentication, secure message passing, and secure object mobility

Mobile Maude has been specified and prototyped in Maude.

• The Full Maude specification of Mobile Maude
• The Mobile Maude specification of the Cell Phone example

• Dr. Patrick Lincoln