Agents skills and their roles in mobile computing and personal communications

Abstract

In the context of the emergence of a global service market enabling the ubiquitous access to information and communication services, the new paradigm of mobile intelligent agents is attracting strong interest throughout the research community, as well as the information and telecommunication industries. After giving a brief account of the development of the agent paradigm and the basic terminology, this paper analyzes different application fields of this highly promising technology. Among the reviewed application areas are electronic markets, virtual enterprises, flexible information systems, and the domain of mobile and personal communications. The analysis leads to the identification of a number of roles agents may take on. The capabilities that an agent exhibits in the course of performing its role can be expressed as levels of agent intelligence, mobility, communicability, autonomy and cooperation ability, i.e. the agents skills.

Agent migration issues in CORBA platforms

“…This movement will be sequential, object by object; (4) The move operation is a synchronous process. It means that the client cannot do anything until the moving process ends.…”

“…It is drawing attention of many researchers to study and propose solutions to the issues detected [1], [2], [3], [4].…”