@TechReport{Dartmouth:TR2004-499,
  author = {Nikita E Dubrovsky},
  title = {{Mobile Agents Simulation with DaSSF}},
  institution = {Dartmouth College, Computer Science},
  address = {Hanover, NH},
  number = {TR2004-499},
  year = {2004},
  month = {June},
  URL = {http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR2004-499.pdf},
  comment = {
    Senior Honors Thesis.  Advisor: Bob Gray.
  },
  abstract = {
    Mobile agents are programs that can migrate from machine to machine in a network of computers and have complete control over their movement. Since the performance space of mobile agents has not been characterized fully, assessing the effectiveness of using mobile agents over a traditional client/server approach currently requires implementing an agent system and running time-consuming experiments.
      This report presents a simple mobile-agent simulation that can provide quick information on the performance and scalability of a generic information retrieval (IR) mobile-agent system under different network configurations. The simulation is built using the DaSSF and DaSSFNet frameworks, resulting in high performance and great configuration flexibility. This report also implements a real D'Agents mobile-agent IR system, measuring the performance of the system. A comparison of these real-world performance results and those given by the simulation suggest that the simulation has good accuracy in predicting the scalability of a mobile-agent system. Thus this report argues that simulation provides a good way to quickly assess the performance and scalability of an IR mobile-agent system under different network configurations.
  }
}