Marco Cremonini, Andrea Omicini, Franco Zambonelli
“IEEE 1999 International Symposium on Software Engineering for Parallel and Distributed Systems (PDSE'99)”, pages 174-180
IEEE CS, Los Angeles, CA, USA
17-18 May 1999
An engineered approach to the design of mobile agent applications requires appropriate abstractions for both the space where agents move and the conceptual space of mobile agent interaction. The paper introduces the HiMAT framework for mobile agent applications, which models the Internet as a collection of hierarchical domains, where programmable coordination media rule mobile agent's interaction within each domain and locally to each node. This provides the designers of mobile agent systems with a single, coherent framework enabling them to effectively deal with network topology, authentication, authorisation and coordination in a uniform way. |