Building Infrastructure for Mobile Software Agents
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Mobile software agents are becoming increasingly more and more popular. To be widely used, mobile agents require a specific infrastructure that supports naming, resolving names to IP addresses, docking stations to suspend agents sent to machines that are off-line, and authentication. This paper describes the Agent Naming System, ANS, which provides all these necessary facilities. We are planning on using ANS for a university-wide agent system that will support various everyday activities, such as assignment distribution and maintenance of course notes.
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تاریخ انتشار 2000