Inter platform agent mobility in FIPA compliant multi-agent systems

Author

Malik, Sarmad Sadik ; Qureshi, Nauman Ahmed ; Ali, Arshad ; Ahmad, H. Farooq ; Suguri, Hiroki

Author_Institution

NUST Inst. of IT, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

fYear

2005

fDate

19-21 May 2005

Firstpage

393

Lastpage

396

Abstract

Agent mobility is an important aspect of any multi-agent system (MAS). It provides a new paradigm to application developers as the real strength of agents can only be realized when they become mobile. We have proposed a mechanism to achieve intra-platform and inter-platform agent migration in a multi-agent system by customizing agent communication channel module. We have evaluated our proposed solution in comparison with remote method invocation (RMI) and found it to be efficient and scalable. It supports the existing features of core agent systems and provides an additional opportunity to employ mobile agents by the application developers.

Keywords

mobile agents; multi-agent systems; remote procedure calls; FIPA; MAS; RMI; agent communication channel; core agent systems; intelligent physical agents foundation; inter-platform mobility; mobile agents; multiagent system; remote method invocation; Communication channels; Communication system control; Communications technology; Control systems; Fault tolerance; Intelligent agent; Mobile agents; Mobile communication; Multiagent systems; Paper technology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Active Media Technology, 2005. (AMT 2005). Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9035-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AMT.2005.1505379

Filename

1505379