Mobile Agents Collaboration for Information Gathering

The proliferation of the diverse information in the Internet makes the information gathering via a single mobile agent difficult. In addition, the limitations of the traditionally sequential task restrain the single agent to be applied to large, complicate applications. As a result, the applicable scope of a single mobile agent is limited. The advent of the collaborating multi-agents infrastructure not only alleviates this difficulty of gathering information throughout networks but also makes the ubiquitous Internet computing possible. In this paper, we introduce an infrastructure of the mobile agents collaboration for Information Gathering which provides the agent interoperability, asynchronous agent activity, and agent control mechanisms. We employ the persistent repository, which is vital to support the transparent recovery of failure and agent mobility. This infrastructure is simple, but able to deal with those complex tasks for the application of multi-agents for information gathering.