Title :
Tracking agent: a new way of communication in a multi-agent environment
Author :
Kunito, Goro ; Okumura, Yasuhiro ; Aizawa, Kiyohsru ; Hatori, Mitsutoshi
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Tokyo Univ., Japan
Abstract :
We propose a communication scheme for multi-mobile-agent system. A mobile-agent is a process moving in a network to execute a task specified by a user. When one of the cooperating agents moves to a new location, it needs to make a new connection to the other agents. Communications by broadcasting is not very efficient. We propose a new agent named “tracking agent”, which tracks locations of mobile-agents, so that a mobile-agent does not need to care about the movements of the other mobile-agents
Keywords :
land mobile radio; software agents; telecommunication computing; tracking; communication scheme; cooperating agents; mobile networks; multi-agent environment; multi-mobile-agent system; tracking agent; Artificial intelligence; Broadcasting; Computational modeling; Digital relays; Hardware; Humans; Intelligent networks; Mobile agents; Mobile communication; Tracking;
Conference_Titel :
Universal Personal Communications Record, 1997. Conference Record., 1997 IEEE 6th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3777-8
DOI :
10.1109/ICUPC.1997.627294
