Name
Abstract | ||
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Two hard sub-problems have emerged relating to the use of mobile agents for service management tasks. First, what is their impact on security, and second, how can they receive a flexible capacity to adapt to an open range of dierent envi- ronments on demand, without introducing too stringent prior assumptions. In this paper, we present work towards solving the sec- ond problem, which is of particular interest to management software, because it typically needs to excert fine-grained and therefore particular resource control. We suggest a mechanism that reassembles mobile agents from smaller sub- components during arrival at each hop. The process incor- porates patterns of unmutable and mutable sub-components, and is informed by the conditions of each local environment. We discuss dierent kinds of software adaptation and draw a distinction between static and continuous forms. Our soft- ware prototype for dynamic adaptation provides a concept for exchanging environment-dependent implementations of mo- bile agents during runtime. Dynamic adaptation enhances ecency of mobile code in terms of bandwidth usage and scaleability. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2001 | 10.1109/JCN.2001.6596961 | Journal of Communications and Networks |
Keywords | DocType | Volume |
Mobile agents,Software,Context-aware services,Java,Browsers,Runtime,Vehicle dynamics | Journal | 3 |
Issue | ISSN | Citations |
4 | 1229-2370 | 3 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.46 | 9 | 3 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Raimund Brandt | 1 | 14 | 1.25 |
| Christian Hörtnagl | 2 | 3 | 0.80 |
| Helmut Reiser | 3 | 57 | 13.26 |