Mobile agent procedures: metacomputing in Java

Author

Barelos, Dimitrios ; Pitoura, Evaggelia ; Samaras, George

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Ioannina Univ., Greece

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

90

Lastpage

95

Abstract

We introduce mobile agent procedures (MAPs) as an efficient, convenient and transparent means of utilizing available networked computational resources. MAPs are mobile remote procedures that are executed in the most appropriate site in a cluster of heterogeneous workstations. Procedure migration is performed by middleware software transparently from the application and without relying on operating system or compiler support. The implementation platform for MAPs are mobile agents in Java

Keywords

client-server systems; distributed programming; object-oriented programming; remote procedure calls; software agents; virtual machines; Java; MAPs; heterogeneous workstations; metacomputing; middleware software; mobile agent procedures; mobile agents; networked computational resources; procedure migration; remote procedure calls; Application software; Computer networks; Internet; Java; Metacomputing; Mobile agents; Network servers; Operating systems; Read only memory; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECMDD.1999.776420

Filename

776420