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International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing
Cost-Effective Planning of Timed Mobile Agents
Las Vegas, Nevada
April 08-April 10
ISBN: 0-7695-1506-1
Jin-Wook Baek, Seoul National University
Gyu-Tae Kim, Seoul National University
Heon-Young Yeom, Seoul National University
The two most significant planning factors in Mobile Agent Planning (MAP) are the number of agents used and each agent's itinerary. These two planning factors must be well scheduled, since badly scheduled factors can cause longer execution time because of the higher routing costs. In addition to these two factors, the time constraints that reside on the nodes of the information repository, which are information servers, also have to be dealt with. Consider the nodes that present correct information only for some time interval. If an agent is sent and arrives earlier than a specified update time to gather information, it may retrieve useless or corrupted information.To cope with these types of information retrieval, we propose a time constrained mobile agent planning method, which finds the minimal number of agents needed and the best scheduled agent itineraries for retrieving information from a distributed computing environment. The method works under the time-constraints mentioned above, allows the completion time to be lower bound and minimizes routing overheads. Simulation results show that the proposed method produces results that are highly applicable to the time-constrained distributed information retrieval problem domain.
Index Terms:
Mobile Agents, Mobile Agent Planning, Mobile Computing, Distributed Agent Systems
Citation:
Jin-Wook Baek, Gyu-Tae Kim, Heon-Young Yeom, "Cost-Effective Planning of Timed Mobile Agents," itcc, pp.0536, International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing, 2002
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