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Mobile Agents

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Mobile agents are autonomous programs that can travel from computer to computer in a network, at times and to places of their own choosing. The state of the running program is saved, by being transmitted to the destination. The program is resumed at the destination continuing its processing with the saved state. They can provide a convenient, efficient, and robust framework for implementing distributed applications and smart environments for several reasons, including improvements to the latency and bandwidth of client-server applications and reducing vulnerability to network disconnection. In fact, mobile agents have several advantages in the development of various services in smart environments in addition to distributed applications.

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  1. National Institute of Informatics, 2-1-2 Hitotsubashi, 101-8430, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan

    Ichiro Satoh

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  1. Future University Hakodate, Kameda-Nakano 116-2, Hakodate, Hokkaido, 041-8655, Japan

    Hideyuki Nakashima

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  3. School of Computing & Mathematics, University of Ulster at Jordanstown, Shore Road, Newtownabbey, Co. Antrim, UK, BT37 0QB

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Satoh, I. (2010). Mobile Agents. In: Nakashima, H., Aghajan, H., Augusto, J.C. (eds) Handbook of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-93808-0_29

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