Title :
An approach towards an agent computing environment
Author :
Johansen, Dag ; Marzullo, Keith ; Lauvset, Kare
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Tromso Univ., Norway
Abstract :
We devise a mobile agent middleware architecture for supporting distributed applications in a wide-area network. The architecture provides a structural framework for functional components that support mobile agents in asymmetric networking environments
Keywords :
client-server systems; distributed programming; software agents; wide area networks; ACE; TACOMA platform; UNIX; Win32 API; agent computing environment; asymmetric networking environments; distributed applications; e-commerce; individual host security; migration; mobile agent middleware; security; state representation; wide-area network; Application software; Bandwidth; Collaboration; Computer architecture; Computer networks; Concurrent computing; Hardware; Middleware; Mobile agents; Parallel processing;
Conference_Titel :
Electronic Commerce and Web-based Applications/Middleware, 1999. Proceedings. 19th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops on
Conference_Location :
Austin, TX
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0225-3
DOI :
10.1109/ECMDD.1999.776418
