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Mobile agent interaction in heterogeneous environments

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Mobile Agents (MA 1997)

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Abstract

An open problem in mobile agent research is the interaction between agents in different ‘worlds’. In this paper, we survey various approaches to agent interaction and discuss the interoperation between Telescript and ffMAIN agents through the use of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and the shared information space provided by ffMAIN.

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  1. Dept. of Computer Science, J.W. Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt/Main

    Peter Dömel, Anselm Lingnau & Oswald Drobnik

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Dömel, P., Lingnau, A., Drobnik, O. (1997). Mobile agent interaction in heterogeneous environments. In: Rothermel, K., Popescu-Zeletin, R. (eds) Mobile Agents. MA 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1219. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-62803-7_30

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