Toward Interoperability of Mobile-Agent Systems


Arne Grimstrup, Robert Gray, David Kotz, Maggie Breedy, Marco Carvalho, Thomas Cowin, Daria Chacón, Joyce Barton, Chris Garrett, and Martin Hofmann. Toward Interoperability of Mobile-Agent Systems. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Mobile Agents, volume 2535 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 106–120. Springer, October 2002. doi:10.1007/3-540-36112-X_8. ©Copyright Springer.

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. This goal 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.

Citable with [BibTeX]: \cite{grimstrup:gmas}

Projects: [dagents]

Keywords: [agents]

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