Coordinating mobile agents through the Broadcast Channel

Coordinating Mobile Agents through the Broadcast Channel

In distributed applications based on mobile agents, coordination and synchronization of the actions executed by a team of mobile agents are difficult tasks. The main difficulty comes from the fact that coordination requires the agents to interact with each other in spite of their dynamically changing locations. In this paper we present a mechanism for coordinating mobile agents which handles th...

Coordinating mobile agents through the Broadcast Channe

Coordinating Patterns of Mobile Information Agents

Mobility is a mechanism to manage accessibility dependencies amongst agents. As such, it is a coordination mechanism in the interaction of agents, users, and information. The Linda-like coordination language Mobile Object Spaces is used to express coordination of entities. It supports the basic operations for coordination by mobility as primitives. Higher order coordination structures can be ca...

Coordinating Mobile Agents by means of Communicators

This paper proposes a coordination model, for both static and mobile agents, based on abstract structures called Communicators, entities which handle agent dialogue performed through ACL speech act exchanging. Such structures are designed based on a need to model agent dialogue in a human-like style, offering a set of coordination primitives of general validity, able to provide both a direct an...

Coordinating mobile agents in interaction spaces

We present a kernel coordination language for mobile agent systems that considers as first-class citizens both the agents and the channels they use to interact with each other. Channels implement distributed, asynchronous communications with FIFO ordering and multicast routing. Features related to mobility include agent migration as well as remote cloning. Most importantly, a virtual form of ch...