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On the Evaluation of the Distributed Objects and Mobile Agents Programming Models for a Distributed Optimization Application

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Distributed Objects and Mobile Agents are gaining more and more popularity in parallel and distributed programming, especially when targeted towards heterogeneous distributed architectures.

In this paper we present a comparison between the Distributed Objects and Mobile Agents distributed programming paradigms. The comparison has been performed based on the development of an irregular application for two different programming environments: JavaSymphony, which supports the distributed objects paradigm, and MAGDA which is based on the mobile agent paradigm.

This work has been supported by the Italian Ministry for University and Research (MURST) (P.R.I.N. Project ISIDE- “Dependable reactive computing systems for industrial applications”), by the CNR - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy (Agenzia 2000 Project Metodologie e strumenti per laboratori virtuali distribuiti) and by the Austrian Science Fund as part of the Aurora Project under contract SFBF1104.

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  1. Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’ Informazione, Second University of Naples Italy, Real Casa dell’Annunziata, via Roma, 29, 81031, Aversa (CE), Italy

    Rocco Aversa, Beniamino Di Martino & Salvatore Venticinque

  2. Institute for Software Science, University of Vienna, Liechtensteinstr. 22, A-1090, Vienna, Austria

    Thomas Fahringer

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Aversa, R., Di Martino, B., Fahringer, T., Venticinque, S. (2002). On the Evaluation of the Distributed Objects and Mobile Agents Programming Models for a Distributed Optimization Application. In: Fagerholm, J., Haataja, J., Järvinen, J., Lyly, M., Råback, P., Savolainen, V. (eds) Applied Parallel Computing. PARA 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2367. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48051-X_24

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