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Reactive tuple spaces for mobile agent coordination

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The paper surveys several coordination models for mobile agent applications and outlines the advantages of uncoupled coordination models based on reactive blackboards. On this base, the paper presents the design and the implementation of the MARS system, a coordination tool for Java-based mobile agents. MARS defines Linda-like tuple spaces that can be programmed to react with specific actions to the accesses made by mobile agents.

This work has been supported by the Italian Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica (MURST) in the framework of the Project “Design Methodologies and Tools of High Performance Systems for Distributed Applications”.

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  1. Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Ingegneria, Università di Modena, Via Campi 213/b, 41100, Modena, Italy

    Giacomo Cabri, Letizia Leonardi & Franco Zambonelli

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Cabri, G., Leonardi, L., Zambonelli, F. (1998). Reactive tuple spaces for mobile agent coordination. In: Rothermel, K., Hohl, F. (eds) Mobile Agents. MA 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1477. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0057663

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