Christos Georgousopoulos
ABSTRACT
An approach for dynamic load balancing of mobile agents is described. We demonstrate this approach for a multi-agent system operating on an active digital library composed of multi-spectral images of the Earth, as part of the Synthetic Aperture Radar Atlas (SARA)[25]. In the proposed architecture specialized stationary agents are used to gather system state information and make decisions on the distribution of mobile agents among the servers. Our approach is based on a combination of a state and model-based approaches to load balancing.
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