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Strategically mobile agents

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Abstract

To realize its promise of providing scaleable and optimal use of network resources, mobile agent technology must be integrated with non-mobile architectures (e.g., client-server) while taking into account the specific needs of applications. This paper introduces a general characterization of mobile agent applications that provides a framework for reasoning about such optimization issues. This framework is refined to enable analysis of alternative mobility policies, and the development of a new strategic mobility policy that uses the application characterization to intelligently decide on mobility. The analysis shows that the extreme cases of ‘always mobile’ and ‘always stationary’ are sub-optimal with respect to strategic mobility. Strategic mobility has been implemented in a software prototype called Mobile-AgentX and successfully tested in an application of concurrent engineering of Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS).

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

    Teck-How Chia

  2. Xerox Corporation Design Research Institute, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

    Srikanth Kannapan

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Chia, TH., Kannapan, S. (1997). Strategically mobile agents. 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_31

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