An embeddable mobile agent platform supporting runtime code mobility, interaction and coordination of mobile agents and host systems

A bio-inspired mobile agent-based integrated system for flexible autonomic job shop scheduling

“…Mobile-C [35][36][37], an embeddable mobile agent platform supporting C/C++ mobile agents for various distributed applications, is employed in the system as the scheduling center agency (SCY) and manufacturing cell agency (MCY), as shown in Fig. 8.…”

An Agent-Based System for Sensor Cloud Management

“…The IEEE FIPA [23] is an international agent standard. The majority of actively maintained Java-based or C-based multi-agent platforms, such as JADE and Mobile-C [24,25], are IEEE FIPA compliant platforms. Additionally, members of the IEEE FIPA standard include researchers and experts from many academic institutions and industrial companies.…”

“…With regard to software, Mobile-C [24,25], an embeddable multi-agent agent platform supporting C/C++ mobile agents, is employed in Sensor Agent Cloud as the sensor node agency and client agency, as shown in Figure 5. Among the Mobile-C modules shown in Figure 5, by default, the three FIPA mandatory modules, the Agent Management System (AMS), Agent Communication Channel (ACC), and Directory Facilitator (DF), are initialized when Mobile-C is started.…”

Communication and migration of an embeddable mobile agent platform supporting runtime code mobility

“…Mobile-C [22][23][24][25] was originally developed as a standalone, IEEE FIPA compliant mobile agent platform to accommodate applications where low-level hardware is involved and embedded systems [26]. Most of the systems are written in C/C++; Mobile-C chose C/C++ as the mobile agent language because C has an advantage for easy interfacing with control programs and underlying hardware.…”

“…Messages for agent communication and migration are presented in FIPA ACL and encoded in XML. Also, the Mobile-C library was designed to support synchronization [26] in order to protect shared resources and provide a way of deterministically timing the execution of mobile agents and threads.…”