Title :
A Multimedia Transportable Agent System
Author :
Ziadé, F. ; Karmouch, A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Multimedia Inf. Res. Lab., Ottawa, Ont., Canada
Abstract :
The paper addresses the role and the advantages of mobile agents in the world of computing and describes the Multimedia Transportable Agent System, a prototype we are currently developing. The main goals of the system are to provide support for agent based applications and to combine the multimedia and the agent technologies: mobile agents can travel and execute on different nodes along the network and manipulate data of various media types such as audio and video
Keywords :
computer communications software; mobile communication; multimedia communication; multimedia computing; agent based applications; agent technologies; audio; media types; mobile agents; multimedia transportable agent system; video; Computer networks; Laboratories; Mobile agents; Mobile communication; Mobile computing; Multimedia computing; Multimedia systems; Network servers; Portable computers; Prototypes;
Conference_Titel :
Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1997. Engineering Innovation: Voyage of Discovery. IEEE 1997 Canadian Conference on
Conference_Location :
St. Johns, Nfld.
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3716-6
DOI :
10.1109/CCECE.1997.614832
