MobileSpaces: a framework for building adaptive distributed applications using a hierarchical mobile agent system

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

2006

Abstract.A mobile agent system for organizing multiple mobile agents is presented. It provides two unique two mechanisms for dynamically organizing mobile agents, which may be running on single or multiple computers. The first enables a mobile agent to contain other mobile agents inside it and migrate to another mobile agent or computer with its inner agents. It provides an approach to composing large-scale mobile software from a collection of mobile agents and using mobile agents as deployable software components. The second enables a mobile agent to be deployed at computers according to the movements of other mobile agents. It can move a federation of agents running on different computers, over a distributed system. It can build and aggregate distributed applications from one or more mobile components that can be dynamically deployed at mobile or stationary computers during the execution of the application. This paper also presents a prototype implementation of the system and its application.

Section: Strong Compositionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To solve this problem, a few attempts to organize mobile agents have been proposed, e.g., MobileSpaces [11], CLAIM [5], and FarGo [7]. MobileSpaces and CLAIM enable each mobile agent to be organized within a tree structure and to migrate to other mobile agents, which may run on different computers, with its inner agents.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Organization and Mobility in Mobile Agent Computing

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

2006

“…A portable and extensible mobile agent system MobileSpaces [12] serves as the basis for the framework presented in this paper. It can dynamically adapt its functions and structures to changes in the environments.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The framework is built on a mobile agent system, called MobileSpaces [12]. The system is characterized by two novel concepts: agent hierarchy and inter-agent migration, which are illustrated in Figure 1.…”

Section: Configurable Network Processingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Configurable Network Processing for Mobile Agents on the Internet

2004

Cluster Computing

This paper presents a framework for building and deploying protocols for migrating mobile agents over the Internet. The framework enables network protocols for agent migration to be naturally implemented within mobile agents and then dynamically deployed at remote hosts by migrating the agents that perform the protocols. It is built on a hierarchical mobile agent system, called MobileSpaces, and several protocols for migrating agents for managing cluster computing systems have been designed and implemented based on the framework. This paper describes the framework and its prototype implementation, which uses Java as both the implementation language and the protocol development language.

“…However, the technology assumes each mobile agent to be an isolated entity that migrates between computers independently of other agents and it does not support any document-centric approaches. We constructed a mobile agent system called MobileSpaces [17] and designed a compound document framework [18,21] based on the system. The previous framework could not be used to define or customize any network processing, because it was only proposed as an application of the MobileSpaces system.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Document-Centric Component Framework for Document Distributions

On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2006: CoopIS, DOA, GADA, and ODBASE

2006

Abstract. This paper presents a framework for building and managing compound documents in distributed systems. It enables an enriched document to be dynamically and nestedly composed of software components corresponding to various types of content, e.g., text, images, and windows. It permits the content of each component and program code to access the content inseparable inside the components so that the components can be viewed or modified without the need for any applications. It enables each component or document to migrate over a network under its own control by using mobile agent technology. Moreover, it introduces components as carriers or forwarders because it enables them to carry or transmit other components as first class objects to other locations. It offers several basic operations for network processing, e.g., forwarding, duplication, and synchronization. Since these operations are still document components, they can be dynamically deployed and customized at local or remote computers through GUI manipulations. It therefore allows an end-user to easily and rapidly configure network processing in the same way as if he/she had edited the documents. This paper describes the framework and its implementation, which currently uses Java as the implementation language as well as a component development language, and then illustrates several interesting applications that demonstrate its utility and flexibility.