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A Mobile Multi-agent System for Distributed Computing

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Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing (AP2PC 2002)

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The paper describes a peer-to-peer distributed-computing platform, called yaca, based on mobile agents. Next to the client agents, which seek computational resources in a cluster, yaca consists of four agents, who manage the computers within a cluster. (1) The Directory Agent keeps track of the computers belonging to the cluster. These computers are called nodes. (2) The Weather Agent monitors the resources of a node and (3) the Account Agent keeps track of the resources used by each client agent. (4) The Controller Agent controls the access to a node and migrates client agents to other nodes in the cluster if the node becomes overloaded. Experiments showed that yaca brings little overhead. However, its load balancing algorithm has room for improvements.

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  1. International Institute of Infonomics Department of Computer Science, Universiteit Maastricht, P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD, Maastricht, The Netherlands

    Stefan Kleijkers, Floris Wiesman & Nico Roos

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  1. Department of Electronics, Computer Science and Systems, University of Bologna, Via Rasi e Spinelli, 176, 47023, Cesena (FC), Italy

    Gianluca Moro

  2. Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering Intelligent Systems Laboratory, Technical University of Crete, University Campus - Kounoupidiana, 73100, Chania, Crete, Greece

    Manolis Koubarakis

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Kleijkers, S., Wiesman, F., Roos, N. (2003). A Mobile Multi-agent System for Distributed Computing. In: Moro, G., Koubarakis, M. (eds) Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing. AP2PC 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2530. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45074-2_16

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