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Dependable communication capabilities are amongst the most important technical requirements for mission success in military combat operations. This paper introduces a mobile agent-based middleware that supports both point-to-point messaging and hierarchical data-streaming. Two infrastructure technologies (Mockets and FlexFeed) are introduced as service providers for messaging and publish-subscriber models for data streaming. Opportunistic resource allocation and monitoring are handled by distributed coordination algorithms, implemented here through two complementary technologies: Stand-In Agents and Acquaintance models.
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Carvalho, M., Pechoucek, M., Suri, N. (2006). A Mobile Agent-Based Middleware for Opportunistic Resource Allocation and Communications. In: Thompson, S.G., Ghanea-Hercock, R. (eds) Defence Applications of Multi-Agent Systems. DAMAS 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3890. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11683704_10
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