Title :
A Petri net model of the meeting design pattern for mobile-stationary agent interaction
Author :
Rana, O.F. ; Biancheri, C.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Cardiff Univ., UK
Abstract :
A framework for modelling performance of agent design patterns (ADPs) as Petri net (PN) models is presented. We explore the Meeting ADP in IBM´s Aglets. The framework is extendable to other ADPs, and user specified control conditions. Development of the PN will allow a programmer/systems designer to calculate bounds on performance for the Meeting ADP, and enable better resource management in a distributed computing environment. Our PN model can cater for multiple mobile and stationary agents, and also for stochastic variables such as network latency and port contention at a host.
Keywords :
Petri nets; distributed object management; distributed programming; object-oriented programming; software agents; software performance evaluation; IBM Aglets; Meeting ADP; Petri net model; agent design patterns; distributed computing environment; host; meeting design pattern; mobile-stationary agent interaction; network latency; performance bounds; performance modelling; port contention; resource management; stochastic variables; user specified control conditions; Computer science; Data security; Distributed computing; Java; Libraries; Mobile agents; Mobile computing; Petri nets; Resource management; Stochastic processes;
Conference_Titel :
Systems Sciences, 1999. HICSS-32. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Maui, HI, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0001-3
DOI :
10.1109/HICSS.1999.773090
