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Coordinating mobile agents by the XML-based tuple space

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This paper presents Xspace, a programmable coordination paradigm for Internet applications based on mobile agents. The Xspace system fully exploits the advantages of the XML language and Linda-like coordination. It supports XML documents as tuple fields and multiple matching routines implementing different relations among XML documents, including those given by XML query languages. The Xspace uses Java as the implementation language; it is based on object-oriented XMLized, tuple spaces to implement a portable and programmable coordination paradigm for mobile agents. The design and implementation procedures of Xspace are described in this paper. Experiment and performance evaluation are also made. Finally, some conclusions and remarks are given.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 430074, Wuhan, P.R. China

    Lu Zhengding & Li Chunlin

  2. Department of Computer Science, Wuhan University of Technology, 430063, Wuhan, P.R. China

    Li Chunlin & Li Layuan

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The work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and NSF of Hubei Province.

LU Zhengding was born in 1944. He is currently a professor and Ph.D. supervisor at Huazhong University of science and Technology. His research interests are distributed systems and software, and Internet/Intranet. He has published over 160 technical papers and is the author, of 9 books.

LI Chunlin was born in 1974. She received her B.E. and M.E. degrees from Wuhan Transportation University, China, in 1997 and 2000, respectively. She is currently a Ph.D candidate in the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Her research interests include Internet/Intranet, distributed computing and Web systems. She has published over 10 papers.

LI Layuan was born in 1946. He received the B.E. degree in communication engineering from Harbin Institute of Military Engineering, China, in 1970 and M.E. degree in communication and electrical systems from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, in 1982. Since 1982, he has been working in wuhan University of Technology, China, where he is currently a professor of computer science and Ph.D. supervisor. His research interests include high-speed computer networks, protocol engineering and image processing. He has published over 150 technical papers and is the author of 5 books.

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Lu, Z., Li, C. & Li, L. Coordinating mobile agents by the XML-based tuple space. J. Compt. Sci. & Technol. 17, 888–900 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02960781

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