| Magic G. (1998): Introduction to the Odyssey API. Available at http://www.generalmagic.com/agents/ odysseyIntro.pdf. |
....by using MAT. Keywords: autonomous agent, mobile agent system, distributed supporting environment, thread migration 1 Introduction It is believed that a new star in the sky of distributed object oriented systems is the emerging field of mobile agents [22] There are many mobile agent systems [7][8] 14] 18] that have been developed since the first prototype, Telescript [24] was proposed for e commerce in 1994. There are many ongoing discussions about developments of new mobile agent systems, but few have focused on both mobility and autonomy [2] 4] In an application of mobile ....
....devices) minimization of network communications and localization of interactions are the desirable goals of MAT. To achieve those aims, we cannot use the traditional communication models, such as the direct communication model and the rendezvous model [1] 3] 8] or the meeting oriented model [7][19] Instead, we design a new model: ASS (Active State Space) which is a third party to facilitate interactions between autonomous mobile agents and their communication partners for cooperation or resource accesses. 3 How to Support Autonomies: Methodology of MAT In this section, we ....
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Magic G. (1998): Introduction to the Odyssey API. Available at http://www.generalmagic.com/agents/ odysseyIntro.pdf.
....Magic has recently demonstrated this intelligent agent programming paradigm can be implemented using the Java Programming Language. Odyssey is a set of Java class libraries that allows the creation of agents and places in Java programs; it supports the same level of agent mobility as in Telescript [15]. 3.5.2 Arachne Arachne is a portable user level programming library that supports thread migration over a heterogeneous network of computers. However, migration is not transparent to application programmers as they have to include the Arachne migration related primitives into the code. It is ....
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....one that can be solved via a homogeneous migration solution. This approach was initially used by Chameleon [12] Today it is widely used by mobile agent systems, such as Agent TCL [16] Aglets [18] ARA [22] Concordia [11] Extended Facile [23] Liquid Software [13] Mole [2] Obliq [5] Odyssey [15], Omniware [20] Sumatra [1] TACOMA [39] and Telescript [40] Despite this approach s simplicity it suffers performance penalties from the use of a virtual machine. Some solutions [20, 13] alleviate this problem by using on the fly compilation to translate parts of the task s code to native ....
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.... of agency in general and communication in particular, as a dimension of agent behavior (e.g. Agent Oriented Programming (AOP) 43] The second addresses agent languages and associated communication languages that have evolved to some degree to applications (e.g. TELESCRIPT [47] now Odyssey [19]) In both cases, the bulk of the work on communication languages has been part of a broader project that commits to specific architectures. Agent communication languages like KQML provide a much richer set of interaction primitives (e.g. KQML s performatives) support a richer set of ....
General Magic. Introduction to the Odyssey API, 1998.
....world . To build our system we chose to use IBM s Aglets Workbench [1] This is essentially a set of class libraries that allow the programmer to write their own mobile agents in the Java programming language. There are in fact several alternative environments, including General Magic s Odyssey [4] and ObjectSpace s Voyager [5] We selected Aglets because this was a system with which we had some previous experience. All of these environments are still at a fairly early stage in their development and it is difficult to say at present which will eventually prove to be the best system. ....
General Magic Inc., "Introduction to the Odyssey API", 1997.
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