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An overview of AgentSpace: A next-generation mobile agent system

1998; Springer Science+Business Media; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/bfb0057655

1611-3349

Alberto Rodrigues da Silva, Miguel Mira da Silva, José Manuel Delgado Bardales,

Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation

This paper gives an overall overview of the AgentSpace framework, a next-generation Java mobile agent system developed on top of the ObjectSpace Voyager system. We first introduce the notion of dynamic and distributed agent-based applications and argue that the AgentSpace features are suitable to support them. The AgentSpace novelties include: flexible and dynamic association between agents, security policies and users; transparency of agent location through the use of views; and easy and clean way to create agents through the use of abstract classes and method factories.