Mobile and distributed agents in Mobidget

Author

Fujita, Satoru ; Koyama, Kazuya ; Yamanouchi, Toru ; Jagannathan, Suresh ; Kelsey, Richard ; Philbin, James

Author_Institution

NEC Corp., Kawasaki, Japan

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

276

Lastpage

277

Abstract

The paper briefly presents the design rationale for Mobidget, an agent based distributed programming language, intended for highly mobile applications. Mobidget provides two abstractions to foster mobility in heterogeneous computing environments: agents serve as distributed protection domains, and cliques act as the basic unit of mobility. Migration does not impact the semantics for intra-agent references, which are completely transparent to the programmer even though an agent´s contents may be physically distributed

Keywords

distributed programming; mobile computing; object-oriented programming; parallel languages; Mobidget; agent based distributed programming language; agent contents; cliques; distributed agents; distributed protection domains; heterogeneous computing environments; highly mobile applications; intra-agent references; mobile agents; Computer languages; Distributed computing; Electrical capacitance tomography; Java; Mobile agents; Mobile computing; National electric code; Protection; Security; Yarn;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Agent Systems and Applications, 1999 and Third International Symposium on Mobile Agents. Proceedings. First International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Palm Springs, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0340-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ASAMA.1999.805419

Filename

805419