Title :
Dynamic objects to support evolution of mobile agents
Author :
Tanaka, Yuichiro ; Fukuda, Munehiro ; Suzuki, Naoya
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Inf. Sci. & Electron., Tsukuba Univ., Ibaraki, Japan
fDate :
6/23/1905 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The self-modifiability or evolvability is necessary for mobile agents to navigate over network changing unpredictably and continuously. We propose an approach to the evolution of mobile agents based on dynamic objects capable of being attached to, interpreted by carried with, exchanged among, and structured by the agents. We have implemented such objects on the MESSENGERS mobile-agents system, and have coded a distributed task coordination as an application example. This paper presents the implementation and benefits of our approach to the agent evolution
Keywords :
distributed processing; evolutionary computation; object-oriented programming; software agents; MESSENGERS mobile-agents system; agent evolution; distributed task coordination; dynamic objects; evolvability; mobile agents; self-modifiability; Communication system control; Data structures; Joining processes; Libraries; Mobile agents; Navigation; Wide area networks;
Conference_Titel :
Communications, Computers and signal Processing, 2001. PACRIM. 2001 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on
Conference_Location :
Victoria, BC
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7080-5
DOI :
10.1109/PACRIM.2001.953740
