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Towards Adaptive Migration Strategies for Mobile Agents

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Innovative Concepts for Autonomic and Agent-Based Systems (WRAC 2005)

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Mobile agents were introduced as a new design paradigm for distributed systems. One advantage of mobile agents is to reduce network traffic as compared to the client-server paradigm, simply by moving code close to the data instead of moving large amount of data to the client. Unfortunately, many mobile agent toolkit suffer from to simple migration techniques. Therefore, we argue in this paper for an new migration technique that supports an adaptive decision on the code and data relocation technique. We propose several techniques for code analysis and alteration and present an algorithm to determine the optimal migration strategy within this model under the assumption of full knowledge about the application and network environment.

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  1. Computer Science Department, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Ernst-Abbe-Platz 2, 07743, Jena, Germany

    Steffen Kern

  2. Swinburne University of Technology, Faculty of Information Technologies, John St, Hawthorn, Victoria, 3122, Australia

    Peter Braun

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Computer Science, Loyola College in Maryland, 21210, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Michael G. Hinchey

  2. IBM Autonomic Computing, Raleigh, NC, USA

    Patricia Rago

  3. Advanced Architectures and Automation Branch, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 20771, Greenbelt, MD, USA

    James L. Rash

  4. Advanced Technology Laboratories, Lockheed Martin Corporation, 22203, Arlington, VA, USA

    Christopher A. Rouff

  5. School of Computing and Mathematics, University of Ulster, Jordanstown Campus, Northern Ireland

    Roy Sterritt

  6. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 588, 20771, Greenbelt, MD, USA

    Walt Truszkowski

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Kern, S., Braun, P. (2006). Towards Adaptive Migration Strategies for Mobile Agents. In: Hinchey, M.G., Rago, P., Rash, J.L., Rouff, C.A., Sterritt, R., Truszkowski, W. (eds) Innovative Concepts for Autonomic and Agent-Based Systems. WRAC 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3825. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11964995_30

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