DIMENSIONS AND ISSUES OF MOBILE AGENT TECHNOLOGY

Komolafe Taiwo

Abstract


Mobile Agent is a type of software system which acts “intelligently†on one’s behalf with the feature of autonomy, learning ability and most importantly mobility. Now mobile agents are gaining interest in the research community. In this article mobile agents will be addressed as tools for mobile computing. Mobile agents have been used in applications ranging from network management to information management. We present mobile agent concept, characteristics, classification, need, applications and technical constraints in the mobile technology. We also provide a brief case study about how mobile agent is used for information retrieval.

Full Text:

PDF

References


Aglet platform. (2004). URL: http://www.research.ibm.com/trl/aglets/spec10.htm [2] Concordia. (1997) “Concordia: An Infrastructure for Collaborating Mobile Agents†Proc. of Workshop On mobile agents MA’97, Berlin, April 7-8th. LNCS 1219, Springer Verlag. [3] D. Lange, M. Oshima. (1998). Programming and deploying java mobile agents with Aglets, Addison Wesley, ISBN: 0201 32582 9. [4] Glitho, R.H, E. Olougouna, S. Pierre. (2002) Mobile agents and their use for information retrieval: a brief overview and an elaborate case study, Ericsson Res., Montreal, Que IEEE, Jan/Feb 2002, on page(s): [5] J. White, telescript technology Mobile Agents, General Magic White paper, [6] M. Wooldridge. (2002). an introduction to multiagent system, JohnWiley & Sons Ltd, England, ISBN: [7]MSA.(2004).Microsoftsoftwareagent URL:http://www.microsoft.com/msagent/default.asp

Objectspace. (2004).Voyager Technical overview, http://www.objectspace.com/voyager [9] OMG. (2000). Agent technology, green paper, technical report ec#2000-03-01, object management group, march 2000, URL: http://www.jamesodell.com/ec2000-08-01.pdf

P. Morreale. (1998). Agents on the move, spectrum, IEEE, volume: 35 Issue: 4, April 1998, wepage(s) 34-41. [11] R. Gray, D. Gotz, S. Nog, D. Rus,G. Cybenko Mobile agents for mobile computing, Tech Report URL:ftp://ftp.cs.dartmouth.edu/TR/TR96285.pdf, [12] Roch H. Glitho. (2002). Mobile Agents and Their use for Information Retreival: A Brief Overview and an Elaborate Case study, IEEE Network January/February 2002. [13] S. Adnan, J. Datuin, P. Yalamanchili, a survey of mobile agent system, URL:http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/classes/sp00/cse221reports/dat-yal-adn.pdf, 3441, Volume: 16, issue: 1, ISSN: 0890-8044, INSPEC Accession Number: 7165883. [14] S.M.Dejan, W.LaForge, D. Chauhan. (1998). Mobile objects and agent (MOA) Proceeding ofnUSENIX COOTSâ€98, Santa Fe, New Maxico, USA,


Refbacks

  • There are currently no refbacks.