Design Issues in Mobile Agent Programming Systems
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Design Issues in Mobile Agent Programming Systems
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1997
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We describe the mobile agent paradigm which is becoming increasingly popular for network-centric
programming, and compare it with earlier paradigms for distributed computing from which it has evolved.
The design of mobile agent systems requires the resolution of several system-level issues, such as the
provision of code mobility, portability and scalability on wide-area heterogeneous networks, and a host of
security-related problems that go hand-in-hand with mobile code. Agent programming requires suitable
languages and programming models that can support code mobility, and runtime systems that provide
some fundamental primitives for the creation, migration and management of agents. We discuss these
requirements and then describe six mobile agent systems which illustrate different approaches taken by
designers to address the problems.
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Karnik, Neeran; Tripathi, Anand. (1997). Design Issues in Mobile Agent Programming Systems. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/215353.
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