Dimensions and Issues of Mobile Agent Technology

Internet Research, 2001

Automatic, autonomous browsing has an increasingly important task in information discovery and assisted browsing on the Internet. Where users could once keep up to date with information of interest on the Internet, the recursive growth of the network has made this process increasingly time consuming and less rewarding. We present two possible solutions to this problem: Data Agents and CollaborAgents which were developed with IBM's Aglet Workbench-a particular implementation of mobile agents. This paper also surveys the agent technology and discusses the agent building package used to develop both mentioned applications. Finally, it concludes that the future of local interaction, reduced network loading, server flexibility and application autonomy which are supported by mobile agent technology all help to provide a level agility above distributed problem solving.

IEEE Network, 2002

IOSR Journal of Computer Engineering, 2012

The mobile applications are one of the most important utilities of modern communication world. Currently this technology is getting compact to provide compatibility and accessibility to the users with a better option of handling. This research is based on the mobile and m-commerce technology, a fastest growing technology of today. The m-commerce technology provides various services like Mobile ticketing, Mobile banking, Mobile location based services, Mobile auctions, Mobile purchasing and so on. This represents an incredible chance to enable mobile devices as universal device for mobile commerce applications. We have explored an important application view of mobile technology i.e. intelligent multi-agent system with an example application of hotel reservation through mobile phones that will not only enable the mobile phone users to access the services through internet but also provide ultimate mobility without any hassle of communication. We also explained the structure of the system with the incorporation of mobile software agent technologies.

2000

Over the last couple of years we have been working on the development of mobile agents systems and its application to the areas of telecommunications and network management. This work path produced positive results: a competitive mobile agent platform was built, the run-time benefits of mobile agents were proved, and our industrial partners have developed practical applications that are being integrated into commercial products. However, despite the positive results, we feel that mobile agent technology is still not ready to enter the path of mainstream software development. This is the reason why this technology has not yet gain large acceptance by the developers of real applications, despite the large number of interesting experiences already available. In our perspective, one of the main reasons for this situation arises from the traditional approach to mobile agent technology. This approach, based on the familiar concept of mobile agent distributed platforms as extensions of the operating system, focuses too much on mobile agents and associated issues (mobility, agent lifecycle, security, coordination, etc.) and provides poor support for the development of applications where mobile agents are just one of several available technologies. Learning from past experience, we are now working on a new approach where the focus is brought back to the applications and mobile agents become just one the tools available to develop distributed systems. This provides a much lighter framework for application-based mobile agents This paper presents the lessons learned from our previous project and discusses this new concept we are developing: application-centric mobile agent systems. * Mobile agents do impose more complex security problems in fully open environments where there is no user accountability (for authentication and authorization). Nevertheless, most applications are not deployed in that kind of environments.

International Journal for Research in Applied Science & Engineering Technology, 2017

Mobile agents are an imminent technology for developing applications in mobile, distributed and pervasive computing. They offer a broad spectrum of features like autonomy; migrate to remote computers and process data to save remote connections. Mobile agents can be applied to a broad domain: network management, sensor network, grid computing, web services, and data mining. Numerous mobile agent systems have been developed, while some have been outdated and no longer in use others are in a continuous process of development, offering a variety of features. With the introduction of new computing platforms, to take advantage of mobile agent technology one must develop distributed applications that can cater to the needs. In this survey paper, we evaluate some of the existing mobile agent systems.

Abstract—Mobile Agents are a well-known programming,paradigm nowadays. There is a multitude of research concerning Mobile Agent Systems with emphasize on agent coordination, agent languages and agent migration technology. On the one hand, it is often argued, that Mobile Agents are well-suited for the use in the Internet and especially with Mobile Devices and roaming users. On the other hand, there are only few publications describing the actual implementation of a Mobile Agent System for Mobile Devices. In this paper we present our implementation of the Mobile Agent System Okeanos for the use in mobile environments with emphasize in agent routing and forwarding.

2001

Over the last couple of years we have been working on the development of mobile agents systems and its application to the areas of telecommunications and network management. This work path produced positive results: a competitive mobile agent platform was built, the run-time benefits of mobile agents were proved, and our industrial partners have developed practical applications that are being integrated into commercial products.

1996

Mobile agents are programs that can move through a network under their own control, migrating from host to host and interacting with other agents and resources on each. We argue that these mobile, autonomous agents have the potential to provide a convenient, e cient and robust programming paradigm for distributed applications, particularly when partially connected computers are involved. Partially connected computers include mobile computers such as laptops and personal digital assistants as well as modem-connected home computers, all of which are often disconnected from the network. In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of our mobile-agent system, Agent Tcl, and the speci c features that support mobile computers and disconnected operation. These features include network-sensing tools and a docking system that allows an agent to transparently move b e t ween mobile computers, regardless of when the computers connect to the network.

VI Congreso Argentino de Ciencias de la Computación, 2000

Currently, the inforrnation retrieval has been reflected directly in the final products of an organization. The databases integration reduces in the costs of an organization, where the legacy systerns and the new data storage technologies can be interrelated , supplying to the final users more consistent database information which proceed from a broader range of databases. So, the information retrieval between distinct databases will increase the data recuperation and permits facilities to users. Besides bringing these benefits, the use of the rnobile agents rnust allow a greater consistency in the data, since these agents rnove to the machines, and execute their tasks locally. This way, the data will not keep moving through the network, but will be stored in the mobile agents compartment, thus supplying one more level of security.