Mobile agents are intelligent agents with advanced mobility capabilities. Amobile agent must be provided with so-called strong mobility, a featurethat allows it to carry its status with it and accomplish its mission by migrating from site to site on the Internet. A mobile agent can complete onone site what it started on another site.Starting from the mobile agent concept, this book provides the reader with a suitably detailed discussion on mobile agent principles of operation, as for instance, migration, communication, coordination, interoperability, faulttolerance and security. As an example of application fields for mobileagents, the book discusses how they can be effective in implementing datamining and information retrieval systems.

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Genco, A.

Advances in management information series, Southampton, Boston, England, 2008

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

WIT Press, Southampton, 2008

October 30, 2007

2011 12 30

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Multi-agent systems are one of the most effective software design paradigms, and they are considered to be the most recent evolutionary step of object-oriented programming. Agents have several advantages when compared with objects. The most important among them is to be made of active code, which is capable of acting autonomously. Agents can be a suitable choice to exploit the Internet reality, since users can operate easily in a less compelling way and also reduce Internet connection time. Mobile agents thus make a PC an intelligent entity able to autonomously accomplish boring human tasks, starting from document search up to actual business negotiations. Mobile agents allow a human owner to decide if and when his intervention is suitable or required. The book describes the mobile agent principles of operation in detail. It starts from giving some definitions, and illustrates their main features such as mobility, communication, coordination, interoperability, fault tolerance and security. Comparisons of these features between most relevant multi-agent developing platforms are then discussed. The book ends with a discussion on a mobile agent application field, data mining and information retrieval namely, thus showing how mobile agents can help us to face these field related problems.

Mobile agents are intelligent agents with advanced mobility capabilities. A mobile agent must be provided with so-called strong mobility, a feature which allows it to carry its status with it and accomplish its mission by migrating from site to site on the Internet. A mobile agent can complete on one site what it started on another site.
<p>Starting from the mobile agent concept, this book provides the reader with a suitably detailed discussion on mobile agent principles of operation, as for instance, migration, communication, coordination, interoperability, fault tolerance and security. As an example of application fields for mobile agents, the book discusses how they can be effective in implementing data mining and information retrieval systems.</p>

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