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Mobile Agents : Control Algorithms

Control Algorithms

By: Joachim Baumann

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Paperback | 1 November 2000

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In this monograph, Joachim Baumann provides in-depth coverage of essential research issues; namely, mechanisms for locating and terminating mobile agents and for orphan detection in a mobile agent system. The reader will gain insights into the design and implementation of three control mechanisms for use in mobile agent systems: the energy concept, the path concept, and the shadow concept. The author examines these mechanisms and offers a solid argument as to why they would be better choices over existing mechanisms with respect to message complexity, migration delay, and availability. All in all, this book is an outstanding contribution to advancing the science of mobile agents and it will help the community better understand how to tame mobile agents.

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Introduction	p. 1
Mobile Agents	p. 5
Introduction to Mobile Agents	p. 6
A Short History of Mobile Agents	p. 6
Properties of Mobile Agents	p. 7
Applications	p. 8
Examples of Mobile Agent Systems	p. 9
High-Level Language-Based Systems	p. 10
Language-Independent Systems	p. 12
Standardization Efforts	p. 14
Our Agent Model	p. 14
Relations between Agents	p. 15
Control Mechanisms for Mobile Agents	p. 17
Related Work in the Area of Mobile Agents	p. 18
Locating Agents	p. 18
Orphan Detection	p. 20
Termination	p. 21
System and Failure Model	p. 23
Our System Model	p. 23
Our Failure Model	p. 23
Control Mechanisms for Mobile Agents	p. 25
The Energy Concept	p. 26
The Idea	p. 26
The Protocol	p. 27
Discussion	p. 29
The Path Concept	p. 29
The Idea	p. 30
The Protocol	p. 30
Discussion	p. 33
The Shadow Protocol	p. 33
The Basic Protocol	p. 33
Hierarchical Shadows	p. 41
Mobile Shadows	p. 49
Strategies for Moving the Shadows	p. 58
Possible Optimizations	p. 60
Comparing the Path Availabilities	p. 61
Discussion	p. 64
Distributed Garbage Collection	p. 65
System and Failure Models	p. 66
Introduction to Distributed Garbage Collection	p. 66
A Computation Model for Distributed Objects	p. 67
Reference Counting Schemes	p. 68
Direct Reference Counting Algorithms	p. 68
Weighted Reference Counting	p. 73
Local Reference Counting	p. 76
From Garbage Collection to Control Mechanisms for Mobile Agents	p. 79
A Computation Model for Mobile Agents	p. 80
Agents as Parent Objects	p. 81
The Idea	p. 81
Simple Reference Counting	p. 81
The Variant of Lermen and Maurer	p. 83
The 3-Message Variant of Rudalics	p. 86
The 4-Message Variant of Rudalics	p. 88
Weighted Reference Counting	p. 88
Local Reference Counting	p. 89
Dependency Objects as Parent Objects	p. 91
The Idea	p. 91
Direct Reference Counting	p. 92
Local Reference Counting	p. 94
Assessing the Transformations	p. 96
Agents as Parent Objects	p. 96
Dependency Objects as Parent Objects	p. 98
Combining the Transformations	p. 99
Local Reference Counting plus Weighted Reference Counting.100
Discussion	p. 101
Comparing the Mechanisms	p. 103
Functional Comparison	p. 103
Categorizing the Mechanisms	p. 104
Assessing the Mechanisms	p. 105
Availability	p. 105
Message Complexity	p. 106
Migration Delay	p. 107
Overall Assessment	p. 109
Discussion	p. 110
Conclusion	p. 111
Future Work	p. 113
Fundamentals of Probability Theory	p. 115
Introduction to Fault Tolerance	p. 119
Basic Concepts and Definitions	p. 119
Failure Classification	p. 122
Fault Tolerance and Message Complexity	p. 125
The Energy Concept	p. 125
The Path Concept	p. 126
The Shadow Protocol	p. 129
Bibliography	p. 143
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