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Design Issues in Mobile-Agent Programming Systems

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Neeran M. Karnik,

Anand R. TripathiAuthors Info & Claims

IEEE Concurrency, Volume 6, Issue 3

Pages 52 - 61

https://doi.org/10.1109/4434.708256

Published: 01 July 1998 Publication History

Abstract

This article describes the mobile-agent paradigm, which is becoming increasingly popular for network-centric programming, and compare it with earlier paradigms for distributed computing from which it has evolved. The design of mobile agent systems requires that several system-level issues be resolved, such as the provision of code mobility, object naming, portability, scalability, and a range of security issues that go hand-in-hand with mobile code. Agent programming requires suitable languages and programming models that can support code mobility and runtime systems that provide some fundamental primitives for the creation, migration, and management of agents. The authors discuss these requirements and describe several mobile agent systems that illustrate different approaches designers have taken to address the problems.

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Index Terms

Design Issues in Mobile-Agent Programming Systems
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Distributed artificial intelligence
      1. Intelligent agents
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language types
        Distributed programming languages

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IEEE Concurrency Volume 6, Issue 3

July 1998

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