Title :
Nomadic Pict: language and infrastructure design for mobile agents
Author :
Wojciechowski, Pawel T. ; Sewell, Peter
Author_Institution :
Cambridge Univ., UK
Abstract :
Location-independent communication between migrating agents requires a distributed infrastructure. The authors describe their Nomadic Pict distributed programming language and use it to develop an infrastructure for an example application
Keywords :
distributed programming; mobile computing; parallel languages; software agents; Nomadic Pict language; distributed infrastructure; distributed programming language; example application; infrastructure design; location-independent communication; migrating agents; mobile agents; Algorithm design and analysis; Calculus; Communication standards; Concurrent computing; Mechanical factors; Mobile agents; Mobile communication; Robustness; Tracking; Virtual machining;
Journal_Title :
Concurrency, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/4434.846193
