A performance model for task and interaction patterns in mobile agent systems

Author

Rana, Omer F. ; Walker, David W.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Wales, Cardiff, UK

fYear

2000

fDate

2/1/2000 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

478

Lastpage

484

Abstract

Mobile agents involve the migration of code and state, thereby facilitating the establishment of various communication and execution patterns in application programs. Automating the development of distributed systems that involve mobile agents is a nontrivial problem, requiring the developer to explicitly control and manage the complete environment, involving various host platforms and operating systems. Petri net models of design patterns in the Aglets mobile agent libraries are described, to support automated soft-ware engineering of mobile agent systems. The master-slave design pattern is described for modelling concurrent behaviour, and verified with an Aglets implementation

Keywords

application program interfaces; multi-agent systems; performance evaluation; software libraries; Aglets mobile agent libraries; application programs; automated software engineering; distributed systems; interaction patterns; master-slave design pattern; mobile agent systems; operating systems; performance model; task patterns; Automatic control; Communication system control; Control systems; Design engineering; Environmental management; Libraries; Master-slave; Mobile agents; Mobile communication; Operating systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference, 2000. IPCCC '00. Conference Proceeding of the IEEE International

Conference_Location

Phoenix, AZ

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5979-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PCCC.2000.830353

Filename

830353