Title :
MAGNA-a DPE-based platform for mobile agents in electronic service markets
Author :
Krause, Sven ; De Assis Silva, Flávio Morais ; Magedanz, Thomas ; Popescu-Zeletin, Radu ; Falsarella, Orandi Mina ; Mendez, Carols Raul Arias
Author_Institution :
GMD FOKUS, Berlin, Germany
Abstract :
The global telecommunications environment is rapidly changing to a highly dynamic open environment, where a multitude of competing and/or cooperating service providers offer a steadily growing number of increasingly powerful communication and information services. The need for integration, ubiquitous service access and rapid service provisioning requires an open, universal service platform which supports both telecommunications and management applications. The development of such a platform based on the concept of distributed processing environments (DPEs) has been a major research area. However, DPEs are relatively inflexible. An entirely different platform approach is based on the application of agent technology. Of particular interest are mobile agents, autonomous and thus intelligent software entities, which may roam the network in the course of performing their designated tasks. They offer new opportunities for the provisioning of services in the emerging electronic service markets. Mobile intelligent agents need a distributed agent environment platform. Since both, distributed processing-based and agent-based service provisioning have their specific advantages, such a platform should support both paradigms. This paper provides an overview of the mobile agent architecture MAGNA, and the accompanying agent platform. The distributed agent environment provided by the MAGNA platform is based on current DPE concepts and therefore enables coexistence and integration of distributed and agent-based implementations of telecommunications and management applications
Keywords :
network operating systems; software agents; telecommunication computing; telecommunication services; DPE-based platform; MAGNA; agent platform; distributed agent environment platform; distributed processing environments; electronic service markets; global telecommunications; intelligent software entities; mobile agents; Application software; Consumer electronics; Distributed processing; Intelligent agent; Intelligent networks; Mobile agents; Resource management; Software design; Software performance; Telecommunication control;
Conference_Titel :
Autonomous Decentralized Systems, 1997. Proceedings. ISADS 97., Third International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Berlin
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7783-X
DOI :
10.1109/ISADS.1997.590608