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Growing recognition of the benefits of mobile agents in distributed systems, such as military C4ISR, has led to a proliferation of mobile agent systems. However, incompatibilities between proprietary systems prevent the greater potential benefits of ubiquitous mobile agent computing. In particular, agents cannot migrate to a host that runs a different mobile-agent system. Prior approaches to interoperability have tried to force agents to use a common API and so far none have succeeded. This goal led to our efforts to develop mechanisms that support runtime interoperability of mobile-agent systems. This paper describes the Grid Mobile-Agent System, which allows agents to migrate to different mobile-agent systems.
This research was supported by the DARPA CoABS Program (contracts F30602-98-2-0107, F30602-98-C-0170 and F30602-98-C-0162 for Dartmouth, UWF, and Lockheed Martin respectively) and by the DoD MURI program (AFoSR contract F49620-97-1-03821 for both Dartmouth and Lockheed Martin). The contact author is Thomas Cowin tcowin@ai.uwf.edu.
The Mobile Agent System List identifies systems that do and do not comply with MASIF and other standards. The list is at http://mole.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/mal/mal.html
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Grimstrup, A. et al. (2002). Toward Interoperability of Mobile-Agent Systems. In: Suri, N. (eds) Mobile Agents. MA 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2535. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36112-X_8
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