Screen LibraryMobile agents : basic concepts, mobility models, and the Tracy toolkit /
Mobile agents are software nomads that act as your personal representative, working autonomously through networks. They are able to visit network nodes directly using available computing power and are not limited by platform. This emerging field is now poised to become a cornerstone for new Web-base...
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Elsevier : Morgan Kaufmann ; Dpunkt.verlag,
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| Publisher Address: | San Francisco, CA : Heidelberg : |
| Publication Dates: | 2005. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9781558608177 |
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Mobile agents are software nomads that act as your personal representative, working autonomously through networks. They are able to visit network nodes directly using available computing power and are not limited by platform. This emerging field is now poised to become a cornerstone for new Web-based ubiquitous computing environments. Mobile Agents provides a practical introduction to mobile agent technology and surveys the state of the art in mobile agent research. Students and researchers can use the book as an introduction to the concepts and possibilities of this field and as an overview |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xxi, 441 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-418) and index. |
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9781558608177 1558608176 9780080473482 0080473482 3898642984 9783898642989 1281016241 9781281016249 9781493303687 1493303686 |
| Index Number: | QA76 |
| CLC: | TP18 |
| Contents: | Designing innovative distributed systems -- From client-server to mobile agents -- Mobile agent migration -- Mobile agent communication -- Mobile agent security -- Specifications of the Kalong mobility model -- Using Kalong -- Evaluation -- Running a Tracy agency -- Programming agents with Tracy. |