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1st IEEE Computer Society International Workshop on Cluster Computing
Self-Migrating Threads for Multi-Agent Applications
Melbourne, Australia
December 02-December 03
ISBN: 0-7695-0343-8
Naoya Suzuki, University of Tsukuba
Munehiro Fukuda, University of Tsukuba
Lubomir F. Bic, University of California at Irvine
We propose ``self-migrating threads'' as a new cluster computing paradigm for multi-agent applications, which can be viewed as the interactions among autonomous computing entities, each having its own objectives, behavior, and local information in a synthetic world. Self-migrating threads have both navigational autonomy of mobile agents and fine computation granularity of threads. They are also given the capability to construct system-wide logical networks, representing synthetic worlds. With those aspects, we expect that self-migrating threads provide multi-agent applications with good programmability and performance. We have designed the functionality of self-migrating threads and implemented a low-level migration library. In this paper, we discuss the feasibility of our design by considering the implementation techniques and basic migration performance.
Index Terms:
Thread Migration; Multi-Agent Systems; Mobile Objects
Citation:
Naoya Suzuki, Munehiro Fukuda, Lubomir F. Bic, "Self-Migrating Threads for Multi-Agent Applications," iwcc, pp.221, 1st IEEE Computer Society International Workshop on Cluster Computing, 1999
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