Distributed Task Plan: A Model for Designing Autonomous Mobile Agents
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چکیده
In this paper, we present DTP (Distributed Task Plan), a model to depict distributed tasks for executions by mobile agents. DTP is composed of autonomous primitives and can generate the autonomous workflow when a mobile agent executes it. DTP provides mobile agents with navigational and computational autonomies when transporting through the underlying computational network. A mobile agent plans a DTP according to current user's objectives and the knowledge about current network environments when the agent is created. If necessary a mobile agent can also replan its DTP when exceptions occur during the execution of current DTP. The replaned DTP provides the mobile agent with an alternative workflow to accomplish its owner's objectives when current DTP fails. Concentrating DTP, we discuss the autonomies of mobile agents, the autonomous methodology and the implementation mechanism of autonomous mobile agents by DTP in this paper.
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