%T Write Once, Move Anywhere: Toward Dynamic Interoperability of Mobile Agent Systems
%A Arne Grimstrup
%A Robert S. Gray
%A David Kotz
%A Thomas Cowin
%A Greg Hill
%A Niranjan Suri
%A Daria Chacon
%A Martin Hofmann
%R Technical Report TR2001-411
%I Dartmouth College, Computer Science
%C Hanover, NH
%D July 2001
%U http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR2001-411.ps.Z
%X
 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.
%Z
 Revised July 25, 2001.