@TechReport{Dartmouth:TR2001-411,
  author = {Arne Grimstrup and Robert S. Gray and David Kotz and Thomas Cowin and Greg Hill and Niranjan Suri and Daria Chacon and Martin Hofmann},
  title = {{Write Once, Move Anywhere: Toward Dynamic Interoperability of Mobile Agent Systems}},
  institution = {Dartmouth College, Computer Science},
  address = {Hanover, NH},
  number = {TR2001-411},
  year = {2001},
  month = {July},
  URL = {http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR2001-411.ps.Z},
  comment = {
    Revised July 25, 2001.
  },
  abstract = {
    Mobile agents are an increasingly popular paradigm,
    and in recent years there has been a proliferation
    of mobile-agent systems. These systems are, however,
    largely incompatible with each other. In particular,
    agents cannot migrate to a host that runs a
    different mobile-agent system. Prior approaches to
    interoperability have tried to force agents to use a
    common API, and so far none have succeeded. Our
    goal, summarized in the catch phrase ``Write
    Once, Move Anywhere,'' led to our efforts to develop
    mechanisms that support dynamic runtime
    interoperability of mobile-agent systems. This paper
    describes the Grid Mobile-Agent System,
    which allows agents to migrate to different
    mobile-agent systems.
  }
}