Title :
Optimizing the dissemination of mobile agents for distributed information filtering
Author :
Theilmann, Wolfgang ; Rothermel, Kurt
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Parallel & Distributed High-Performance Syst., Stuttgart Univ., Germany
Abstract :
Reduced communication costs can motivate programmers to use mobile agent technology. The authors analyze the use of mobile agents for filtering distributed information resources and present an approach for coordinating mobile agent dissemination that minimizes communication costs
Keywords :
communication complexity; information dissemination; information retrieval; mobile computing; software agents; communication costs; distributed information filtering; distributed information resource filtering; mobile agent dissemination; mobile agent technology; programmers; Costs; Information analysis; Information filtering; Information filters; Mobile agents; Mobile communication; Network servers; Performance analysis; Programming profession; Search engines;
Journal_Title :
Concurrency, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/4434.846194
