Notes on software agents and the mobility issue

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Addibpour, Matin

Affiliations: Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Teleinformatics, Electrum 204, 164 40 Kista, Sweden. E-mail: mattin@it.kth.se

Abstract: An overview and comparison of mobile agent systems are presented. The rapidly evolving area of software agents is briefly overviewed. The notion of mobility is analyzed in the context of mobile code languages, and its relation to distributed computing (e.g., client–server model), as well as its possible application areas are studied. Finally the need for a combination of mobility with other features is discussed.

Keywords: agent, software agents, mobile agents, distributed computing, client-server model, AI, DAI, KQML

DOI: 10.3233/INF-1997-8106

Journal: Informatica, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 119-138, 1997