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A Location Transparent Multi-agent System with Terminal Mobility Support

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Information Networking (ICOIN 2003)

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On a multi-agent system, an agent cooperates with others to complete its task. Such a system has good flexibility and scalability for network management and service control so that it is expected to be a unified platform for next generation network architecture. However, since each agent migrates from a node to another node autonomously, it is difficult for an agent to know the location of others. Thus, it is important to support location transparent communications. In addition, it is also useful for mobile terminals to use mobile agent technology. However, it is usually difficult for agents to know the network location of the terminal when the terminal moves. In such a case, therefore, agents cannot communicate with the terminal. Practically, there are no systems that support the location transparency with mobile terminals. In this paper, we propose a location transparent multi-agent system with terminal mobility support.

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  1. Department of Information Networking, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan

    Akira Hosokawa, Kazuhiko Kinoshita & Koso Murakami

  2. Computer Center, Okayama University, 3-1-1 Tsushimanaka, Okayama, Okayama, 700-8530, Japan

    Nariyoshi Yamai

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  1. Dept. of Electronics Information Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, Korea

    Hyun-Kook Kahng

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Hosokawa, A., Kinoshita, K., Yamai, N., Murakami, K. (2003). A Location Transparent Multi-agent System with Terminal Mobility Support. In: Kahng, HK. (eds) Information Networking. ICOIN 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2662. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45235-5_42

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