Title :
Knowbot Programming: system support for mobile agents
Author :
Hylton, Jeremy ; Manheimer, Ken ; Drake, Fred L., Jr. ; Warsaw, Barry ; Masse, Roger ; Van Rossum, Guido
Author_Institution :
Corporation for Nat. Res. Initiatives, Reston, VA, USA
Abstract :
Knowbot Programs are mobile agents intended for use in widely distributed systems like the Internet. We describe our experiences implementing security, process migration, and inter-process communication in a prototype system implemented using the object-oriented programming language Python. This infrastructure supports applications that are composed of multiple, autonomous agents that can migrate to use network resources more efficiently
Keywords :
Internet; cooperative systems; object-oriented languages; object-oriented programming; security of data; software agents; Internet; Knowbot Programs; Python; distributed systems; interprocess communication; mobile agents; multiple autonomous agents; network resources; object-oriented programming language; process migration; prototype system; security; Communication system security; Connectors; Internet; Mobile agents; Mobile communication; National security; Operating systems; Protection; Research initiatives; Runtime environment;
Conference_Titel :
Object-Orientation in Operating Systems, 1996., Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Seattle, WA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7692-2
DOI :
10.1109/IWOOOS.1996.557853
