Title :
Service trading for mobile agents with LDAP as service directory
Author :
Park, Anthony Sang-Bum ; Emmerich, Michael ; Swertz, Daniel
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Aachen Univ. of Technol., Germany
Abstract :
The paper presents a prototype implementation of a Java-based mobile agent architecture. The main focus lies on service trading and easy access to various services for mobile agents. The mediator for both mobile and service agents is called Service Center which is a crucial constituent of each agent platform within the mobile agent infrastructure. It allows to independently program services and mobile agents based on the generic agent concept. Another advantage of the Service Center architecture is the exploitation of an already existing LDAP server that is used as the distributed service directory for mobile agents
Keywords :
access protocols; distributed processing; object-oriented programming; software agents; Java-based mobile agent architecture; LDAP server; LDAP service directory; Service Center; distributed service directory; generic agent concept; mobile agent programming; service access; service agents; service programming; service trading; Application software; Computer science; Data security; Electronic commerce; Engines; Java; Mobile agents; Prototypes; Telecommunication computing; Telecommunication services;
Conference_Titel :
Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, 1998. (WET ICE '98) Proceedings., Seventh IEEE International Workshops on
Conference_Location :
Stanford, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8751-7
DOI :
10.1109/ENABL.1998.725704
