We updated and released the source code for our D'Agents mobile-agent system. We have reports of this software being used for research in other universities and corporate labs.
As part of the CoABS Grid effort, we co-developed the Grid Mobile Agent System (GMAS) with Lockheed Martin's ATL and the University of Western Florida's IHMC. GMAS was a major extension to the Grid that defined a Java API for mobile Grid agents. Through proxy-based launchers and bridges, a Grid agent could launch a mobile agent into any Java-based mobile-agent system that supported this API, and could communicate with the mobile agent or any other agent on that system. The mobile agent also could migrate between different agent systems, as long as all of the systems supported the API. As a test of GMAS functionality, we added support for the GMAS API to D'Agents, EMAA, and NOMADS, the mobile-agent systems of Dartmouth, Lockheed Martin, and UWF respectively, and demonstrated an application agent migrating sequentially through the three different agent platforms. This same agent was used to provide medical-monitoring support in the CoAX effort, a joint experiment and technology demonstration designed to explore the efficacy of the CoABS software in coalition applications (see below for more information). With GMAS integrated into the main CoABS Grid distribution, Grid applications easily can take advantage of the bandwidth and latency advantages of mobile agents.