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Debugging Mobile Agent Systems

Authors:

Masayuki Higashino,

Shinya Otagaki,

Kenichi Takahashi,

Takao Kawamura, and

Kazunori SugaharaAuthors Info & Claims

IIWAS '13: Proceedings of International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services

December 2013

Pages 667 - 670

https://doi.org/10.1145/2539150.2539261

Published: 02 December 2013 Publication History

Abstract

A mobile agent is an autonomous software module that can migrate between different computers. A mobile agent is designed and implemented like a human, and mobile agents work together by interactions among them like a human community. Thus, a mobile agent technology is helpful when we develop distributed systems with an easy-to-understand design and implementations for humans. Many researchers have proposed various applications through mobile agent technologies. However, mobile agent technologies are not used much as compared to other networking or programming technologies in the real world because migrations of mobile agents make it difficult to debug the system. This paper discusses problems of mobile agents for debugging, and proposes a remote debugger in order to solve these problems. Our proposed remote debugger supports functions of searching, single stepping execution, breaking, and viewing variables for a mobile agent who behaves with migrations on a running system.

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Singh Chowhan RDayya P(2018)Next Generation in Computing with Agent Oriented Distributed System: Protocols and FeaturesOriental journal of computer science and technology10.13005/ojcst11.02.0811:2(126-134)Online publication date: 30-May-2018
https://doi.org/10.13005/ojcst11.02.08
Russell DEhlers E(2018)A Multi-agent Framework that Facilitates Decoupled Agent FunctioningIntelligent Information Processing IX10.1007/978-3-030-00828-4_12(109-119)Online publication date: 26-Sep-2018
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00828-4_12

Index Terms

Debugging Mobile Agent Systems
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Distributed artificial intelligence
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software verification and validation
      1. Software defect analysis
        Software testing and debugging

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December 2013

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Singh Chowhan RDayya P(2018)Next Generation in Computing with Agent Oriented Distributed System: Protocols and FeaturesOriental journal of computer science and technology10.13005/ojcst11.02.0811:2(126-134)Online publication date: 30-May-2018
https://doi.org/10.13005/ojcst11.02.08
Russell DEhlers E(2018)A Multi-agent Framework that Facilitates Decoupled Agent FunctioningIntelligent Information Processing IX10.1007/978-3-030-00828-4_12(109-119)Online publication date: 26-Sep-2018
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00828-4_12

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