Mobile Agents- Theoretical Approach

Mobile agents are agents that can physically travel across a network, and perform tasks on machines that provide agent hosting capability. This allows processes to migrate from computer to computer, for processes to split into multiple instances that execute on different machines, and to return to their point of origin. Unlike remote procedure calls, where a process invokes procedures of a remote host, process migration allows executable code to travel and interact with databases, file systems, information services and other agents. The technology behind mobile agents is examined, and an analysis of its uses and implications is offered. Use of the Internet has exploded in recent years with the appearance of the World-Wide Web. In this paper, how current technological trends may lead to a system based substantially on mobile code, and in many cases, mobile agents it seems likely that, within a few years, nearly all major Internet sites will be capable of hosting and willing to host some form of mobile code or mobile agents are theoretically discussed.