Mobile agent-based distributed geographic information systems under Internet environment

Author

Guan, Jihong ; Zhou, Shuigeng ; Bian, Fuling ; Zhou, Aoying

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf., Wuhan Tech. Univ. of Surveying & Mapping, Wuhan, China

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

727

Lastpage

731

Abstract

With widespread acceptance and availability of World Wide Web (WWW) technologies, a new generation of GIS emphasizing open architecture, distributed computing, mobility and interoperability has been receiving more attention. The authors propose the architectural concept of Mobile Agent-based Distributed Geographic Information System (MADGIS) for the first time to meet the requirements of GIS applications under Internet environment with limited communication bandwidth and unstable connectivity. We describe the architecture of MADGIS, and discuss the structure of mobile agent facilitator. Then we explore the key techniques for MADGIS implementation. And finally, an application prototype based on the MADGIS architecture is reported

Keywords

Internet; geographic information systems; mobile computing; object-oriented programming; open systems; software agents; GIS applications; Internet environment; MADGIS architecture; WWW technologies; World Wide Web; application prototype; architectural concept; communication bandwidth; distributed computing; interoperability; mobile agent based distributed geographic information systems; mobile agent facilitator; open architecture; unstable connectivity; Bandwidth; Computer architecture; Distributed computing; Geographic Information Systems; Internet; Mobile agents; Mobile communication; Service oriented architecture; Web sites; World Wide Web;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Database and Expert Systems Applications, 2000. Proceedings. 11th International Workshop on

Conference_Location

London

ISSN

1529-4188

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0680-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DEXA.2000.875106

Filename

875106