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Dynamic Adaptation of Mobile Agents in Heterogenous Environments

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Mobile Agents (MA 2001)

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Mobile agents must be prepared to execute on different hosts and therefore in different execution environments. Even when a homogenous execution environment is offered by abstracting the underlying heterogeneity, there are scenarios like IT-management, where mobile agents are forced to contain environment dependent implementations. The aim of this work is to equip mobile agents with a flexible capacity to adapt to a range of different environments on demand.

We discuss different forms of adaptation and draw a distinction between static and continuous forms. Our solution for dynamic adaptation provides a concept for exchanging environment dependent implementation of mobile agents during runtime. Dynamic adaptation enhances efficency of mobile code in terms of bandwidth and scalability.

This work was completed while the author was working at the Munich University of Technology.

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  1. skyguide, Postfach 1518, 8058, Zürich-Flughafen, Switzerland

    Raimund Brandt

  2. Dept. of CS, Munich Network Management Team University of Munich, Oettingenstr. 67, D-80538, Munich, Germany

    Helmut Reiser

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  1. Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133, Milano, Italy

    Gian Pietro Picco

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Brandt, R., Reiser, H. (2001). Dynamic Adaptation of Mobile Agents in Heterogenous Environments. In: Picco, G.P. (eds) Mobile Agents. MA 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2240. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45647-3_6

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