31st International Conference on Technology of Object-Oriented Language and Systems
JMSAS: A Mobile Software Agent System
Nanjing, China
September 22-September 25
ISBN: 0-7695-0393-4
Mobile Software Agent (MSA) is a new distributed computing model that can meet the needs of current computing environment. In MSA model, computing tasks are encapsulated into agents and are implemented through agent migration and interaction. Because MSA is still in research phase presently, there are still no explicit definition to MSA model and appropriate solutions to some implementation technical problems of MSA system. In addition, the application domains for MSA are still under exploration. In this paper, we present a general purpose mobile software agent system, called JMSAS. Firstly, we define explicitly the MSA Model. Secondly, we introduce the architecture of JMSAS system, agent running manner and key technology in agent migration and agent communication implementation. Finally, we propose some ideas of the workflow management based on MSA.
Index Terms:
Distributed Computing, Agent Mobile Software, Agent Workflow Management
Citation:
Chong Chen, Jiwen Huo, Zhongfan Mai, "JMSAS: A Mobile Software Agent System," tools, pp.89, 31st International Conference on Technology of Object-Oriented Language and Systems, 1999