Mobile agents applications

International Journal of Artificial Intelligence & Applications, 2012

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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.

IEEE Network, 2002

Acj, 2005

In this paper we present a comprehensive study of mobile agent applications. We classify the application fields as follows: Network monitoring and management, information searching and filtering, multimedia, Internet, intrusion detection, telecommunications, military, and others. We discuss the potential uses of mobile agents in the various fields and present the many systems and architectures that have been proposed and implemented. Furthermore, we describe ongoing efforts to integrate currently implemented technologies with mobile agent technology. For each of the application fields, we list statistics showing the distribution of research output according to certain criteria such as article type and application field. We end each section with a summary of the work done and provide directions for future work. Finally, we conclude with suggestions about promising research areas involving mobile agents.

Proceedins of Practical Applications of Intelligent …

International Journal of Natural and Applied Sciences (IJNAS)., 2015

Information retrieval techniques have to face both the growing amount of data to be processed and the “natural” distribution of these data over the network. Various technologies and solutions have been developed to handle this situation, including the Mobile Agent technology. A mobile agent is an executing program that can migrate during execution from machine to machine in a heterogeneous network. On each machine, the agent interacts with the local resources to accomplish its task. Mobile Agents are particularly attractive in distributed information retrieval applications for several reasons, including reduction of network load and server access time delay and achievement of higher error tolerance and security. Moreover, Mobile Agents can offer a flexible, versatile, and powerful framework for efficiently developing distributed applications on the Internet. In this research work, a mobile agent for Retrieving Exam results in a distributed database system has been described. The University of Calabar was used as a case study. In the system, two types of sites are used. There are Student Affairs Site and Department Site. The system has been developed using the java programming and the mobile agents have been implemented using the IBM’s Aglet Software Development Kit (ASDK).

The emergence of agent based systems is signalling the beginning of one of the most important paradigm shifts in computing since object oriented methods and client/server based distributed systems. This paradigm shift will obviously require technology development, but of equal importance, or perhaps of even more importance, it will also require substantial education and methodology development. It is not hard to predict that agent technology is an important emerging technology, since it is already beginning to send shock waves through the computer industry. In the current hype, however, it is particularly difficult to distinguish publicity from reality and to get a clear impression of what agents are all about. In this paper we will try to give a comprehensive overview of what mobile agents are, what they may be used for and what the technical issues are. 1. Introduction The importance of agent technology is not hard to predict, since shock waves are already being felt th...

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.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2004

This paper presents framework that can be used for improving working conditions. We have extended intelligent agents technology for the Internet with cell phone technology. This extension allows the mobile worker to have access to the full power of server based computation using cheaper, smaller mobile devices. The most demanding part of the computation is performed by agents running on Internet servers while cell phone computations are concerned only with the interface between end-users and server-based agents. Although we have focused only on Cell Phones, the same technology can be used with Pocket PCs, PDAs and other mobile devices.