%T Transportable Information Agents
%A Robert S. Gray
%A Daniela Rus
%A David Kotz
%R Technical Report PCS-TR96-278
%I Dartmouth College, Computer Science
%C Hanover, NH
%D February 1996
%U http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR96-278.ps.Z
%X
 We have designed and implemented autonomous software agents.
 Autonomous software agents navigate independently through a
 heterogeneous network. They are capable of sensing the network
 configuration, monitoring software conditions, and interacting with
 other agents. Autonomous agents are implemented as transportable
 programs, e.g., programs that are capable of suspending
 execution, moving to a different machine, and starting from where they
 left off.  We illustrate the intelligent behavior of autonomous agents
 in the context of distributed information-gathering tasks.
%Z
 Revised version to appear in AAAI '96 Workshop on Intelligent Adaptive
 Agents.