Title :
Mobile agent procedures: metacomputing in Java
Author :
Barelos, Dimitrios ; Pitoura, Evaggelia ; Samaras, George
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Ioannina Univ., Greece
Abstract :
We introduce mobile agent procedures (MAPs) as an efficient, convenient and transparent means of utilizing available networked computational resources. MAPs are mobile remote procedures that are executed in the most appropriate site in a cluster of heterogeneous workstations. Procedure migration is performed by middleware software transparently from the application and without relying on operating system or compiler support. The implementation platform for MAPs are mobile agents in Java
Keywords :
client-server systems; distributed programming; object-oriented programming; remote procedure calls; software agents; virtual machines; Java; MAPs; heterogeneous workstations; metacomputing; middleware software; mobile agent procedures; mobile agents; networked computational resources; procedure migration; remote procedure calls; Application software; Computer networks; Internet; Java; Metacomputing; Mobile agents; Network servers; Operating systems; Read only memory; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
Electronic Commerce and Web-based Applications/Middleware, 1999. Proceedings. 19th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops on
Conference_Location :
Austin, TX
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0225-3
DOI :
10.1109/ECMDD.1999.776420
