@techreport{dubrovsky:dassf-tr,
    author = {Nikita E. Dubrovsky},
    title = {Mobile Agents Simulation with {DaSSF}},
    year = {2004},
    month = {June},
    number = {TR2004-499},
    institution = {Dept. of Computer Science, Dartmouth College},
    copyright = {the author},
    group = {agents, cmc, coabs},
    url = {https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/senior_theses/36/},
    keyword = {mobile agents, simulation},
    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.\par 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.}
}