Mobile-agent coordination models for Internet applications

Abstract

Internet applications face challenges that mobile agents and the adoption of enhanced coordination models may overcome. To win the race, coordination models have to be inspired by the Linda coordination model and enriched by programmable reactivity.

Middleware support for super distributed autonomic services in pervasive networks

“…Central entities also suffer from mobility of agents. They cannot eventually keep track of agents if they often join and leave the network [16]. Decentralized systems have an organizational advantage as well.…”

Enforcing agent communication laws by means of a reflective framework

“…The agent designer is not forced to change any line of its code, should new application requirements cause communication rules to be added, removed or changed. 3 4. A tool, called ACC Builder, targeted for the agent platform employed, generates the code needed to implement communication rules.…”

“…To copy otherwise, to republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. In the design and development of multi-agent systems, communication and coordination among agents represent key issues [23,8,7,3,24]. As a consequence, agent communication languages (ACLs for short) have been the subject of intense research and debate in recent years [25,19,15,18,17,2].…”

Suitability of Agent Technology for Military Command and Control in the Future Combat System Environment

“…This capability of asynchronous messaging results from the ability of a message to be sent to and retrieved through a loosely coupled temporal agent coordination model. Cabri et al 25 reference two coordination models that provide asynchronous agent communication. The first model is a blackboard-based model that provides a shared area where agents can send and retrieve messages.…”

“…This capability is provided through agent coordination models. 25 These models define how agents communicate among themselves and can be seen as coordinating communication based on the time a message is sent (temporal) or the names of the target agents (spatial). These models provide the ability for communication that is encapsulated and asynchronous with the use of blackboards, and tuple space models and associated pattern matching, such as Linda.…”