Pattern-Based Design for Intelligent Mobile Agents

Mobile agent paradigm is an excellent proposition for distributed computing. More often mobile agents need to be intelligent in distributed and open multi-agent systems to carry out the assigned tasks efficiently. However, factors like network traffic, bandwidth and wireless communication may pose hindrances to the mobility of these agents over the Internet. The problem can be alleviated through a modular, reliable and robust design for the agents. Towards this end, the paper proposes a behaviour helper design pattern and pattern-based design for intelligent mobile agents for dynamic, on-demand behaviour while achieving efficient mobility.