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....which expectation agents are the programs. Agents are authored and maintained on development computers and transported to user computers to execute remotely and report data back to developers. Several researchers have begun to look at sophisticated techniques for achieving agent mobility [13] 15][25]. Rus and colleagues [25] describe an approach in which agents sense network status and navigate adaptively based on reactive plans. There are also a number of commercially (and freely) available mobile agent platforms, e.g. ObjectSpace Voyager TM [22] of which Telescript TM [35] introduced ....

....are the programs. Agents are authored and maintained on development computers and transported to user computers to execute remotely and report data back to developers. Several researchers have begun to look at sophisticated techniques for achieving agent mobility [13] 15] 25] Rus and colleagues [25] describe an approach in which agents sense network status and navigate adaptively based on reactive plans. There are also a number of commercially (and freely) available mobile agent platforms, e.g. ObjectSpace Voyager TM [22] of which Telescript TM [35] introduced by General Magic, Inc. in ....

D. Rus, R. Gray, and D. Kotz. "Transportable Agents". In Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents, 1997.

....mobile agents was implemented on our platform. Most of the work reported was carried out as a student project at the Department of Computer Systems at Uppsala University. The name of project was STEAM 4 . 1 Introduction There are a lot of systems that offer support for mobile agents. AgentTCL[8] is an extension of TCL from Dartmouth College; Telescript[16] from General Magic; and Facile[11] where an existing language is modified to support mobile agents. Most of these systems are either implemented as new languages or implemented in languages where functionality for concurrency, ....

....portable and secure code. The programming language is objectoriented and provides an operator that can move running programs with its state between machines during execution. Telescript has also focused on security with with encryption and digital signatures. Our approach and also AgentTCL s[8] is in many areas similar to Telescript. However, our system is based on a high level symbolic functional language, where we with a set of minor adjustments are able to satisfy our requirements on security for mobile agents. A lot of activity can be seen around Java[7] due to its incorporation in ....

Robert S. Gray, Transportable Agents, Ph. D. Thesis, Dartmouth College, 1995.

....which expectation agents are the programs. Agents are authored and maintained on development computers and transported to user computers to execute remotely and report data back to developers. Several researchers have begun to look at sophisticated techniques for achieving agent mobility [12] 14][24]. Rus and colleagues [24] describe an approach in which agents sense network status and navigate adaptively based on reactive plans. There are also a number of commercially (and freely) available mobile agent platforms [21] of which Telescript [33] introduced by General Magic, Inc. in 1994, was ....

....are the programs. Agents are authored and maintained on development computers and transported to user computers to execute remotely and report data back to developers. Several researchers have begun to look at sophisticated techniques for achieving agent mobility [12] 14] 24] Rus and colleagues [24] describe an approach in which agents sense network status and navigate adaptively based on reactive plans. There are also a number of commercially (and freely) available mobile agent platforms [21] of which Telescript [33] introduced by General Magic, Inc. in 1994, was perhaps the first. ....

D. Rus, R. Gray, and D. Kotz. Transportable Agents. In Proceedings of Autonomous Agents 1997 (Marina Del Rey, California, USA), 1997.

....it is now easier to come to a good definition for a transportable intelligent agent. Robert Gray perhaps described the core nature of transportable agents best with his definition: A transportable agent is a named program that can migrate from machine to machine in a heterogeneous network [Gray95]. In addition to this functional description, several characteristics help to define transportable agents better. In addition to exhibiting all the characteristics of an intelligent agent, including autonomy and memory, a transportable intelligent agent should be portable across platforms, it ....

....and supported agents choosing when and where to migrate. It did not support agent replication, nor did it support inter agent communications. Concurrent with the development of TIAS, another prototype transportable agent system has been developed by Robert Gray, also based on Gray s modified Tcl [Gray95]. It reportedly supports agent relocation, agent replication, and inter agent communications. The TIAS implementation has sought to incorporate all of these characteristics as well. 7 4. The Implementation The TIAS implementation was designed with several objectives in mind. The first objective ....

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Gray, R. "Transportable Agents" Thesis Proposal Defense, Dartmouth College Department of Computer Science, May, 1995.

....Among its many features, Java allows programmers to treat networked resources, e.g. TCP IP connections, as if they were simply objects on a local file system. Other transportable code systems include Obliq ( Cardelli, 1994] which is notable for supporting networked continuations, and AgentTCL ([Gray, 1995]) which is roughly a TCL equivalent of Telescript. SodaBot differs from these systems by providing much higher level and wider ranging facilities to agent programmers. For example, in SodaBot it is easy for a programmer to write inter agent communication without knowing any details of what ....

Gray, Robert. Transportable Agents. Ph.D. Thesis Proposal. Dartmouth College, NH. 1995.

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