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Title

Agent migration as an optical service in an extendable agent toolkit architecture

Author(s)

Braun, Peter;  Mueller, Ingo;  Geisenhainer, Sven;  Schau, Volkmar;  Rossak, Wilhelm

Abstract

In this paper we report on first experiences with a new software architecture for agent toolkits. Agent toolkits mainly consist of a software system that defines an agency, which is responsible to host software agents. Most architectures developed so far already define a large set of services, for example for agent migration, communication, and tracking. We propose to employ a kernel-based approach, where the kernel only provides fundamental concepts and functions common in all toolkits and abstracts from any of these services. We were able to show that in particular agent migration can be implemented as an optional service. We believe that this architecture is a useful foundation for research on agent-related topics as it allows research groups to implement their own results as a service which can be used by other groups running an agent system based on the same architecture.

Publication type

Conference paper

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies

Source

Lecture notes in computer science: Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Mobility Aware Technologies and Applications (MATA), Florianopolis, Brazil, 20-22 October 2004 / Ahmed Karmouch, Larry Korba and Edmundo R. M. Madeira (eds.), Vol. 3284, pp. 127-136

Publication year

2004

Publisher

Springer-Verlag

ISBN

9783540234234, 3540234233

Publisher URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b101423

Publisher URL

http://books.google.com.au/books?id=d8MIijY11r8C

Copyright

Copyright © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2004.

Peer reviewed