Octopus - Computation Agents Environment

This paper presents a platform named Octopus that facilitates the building and execution of mobile agent based applications. It presents the key ideas of how agents embed the computational task and how they cooperate to find the solution. The Octopus is presented with its key mechanisms used to sustain and execute the agents. The cornerstones of the Octopus design are described in detail, giving readers an overview on how to implement a computation problem within the platform. Finally, actual application examples are shown with a short discussion of the Octopus based implementation properties.