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CORBA Solutions for Interoperability in Mobile Agent Environments (2000)
| Venue: | In 2nd International Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications (DOA’00 |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Antonio00corbasolutions,
author = {Paolo Bellavista Antonio and Antonio Corradi},
title = {CORBA Solutions for Interoperability in Mobile Agent Environments},
booktitle = {In 2nd International Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications (DOA’00},
year = {2000},
pages = {283--292},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society Press}
}
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Abstract
The Mobile Agent (MA) paradigm proposes several attractive solutions to deal with the problems of networkcentric programming. Despite the availability of several MA platforms, there are still only a few MA-based distributed services. The paper claims that the lack of interoperability is one of the major obstacles to the largescale diffusion of the MA paradigm, and discusses solutions to permit the interworking between heterogeneous MA frameworks and other systems, whether MA-based or not, via compliance with either accepted or emerging interoperability standards. In particular, we focus on compliance with CORBA, the accepted standard for OO components, but also with MASIF and FIPA, respectively, the OMG specification for the support of agent mobility and management, and the framework for standard languages and protocols in agent communication. The paper also reports performance results of CORBA-based interoperability in the SOMA programming framework: the presented costs, measured for a systems management application, show the feasibility of the adopted interoperability solutions. 1.
Keyphrases
mobile agent environment corba solution mobile agent agent communication largescale diffusion omg specification several attractive solution agent mobility interoperability standard ma paradigm soma programming framework discus solution accepted standard networkcentric programming standard language system management application presented cost adopted interoperability solution heterogeneous ma framework major obstacle oo component performance result corba-based interoperability several ma platform
