Mobile Agents: Control Algorithms

Joachim Baumann (auth.)3540411925, 9783540411925

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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Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages –
Chapter 1. Introduction….Pages 1-4
Chapter 2. Mobile Agents….Pages 5-21
Chapter 3. System and Failure Model….Pages 23-24
Chapter 4. Control Mechanisms for Mobile Agents….Pages 25-64
Chapter 5. Distributed Garbage Collection….Pages 65-78
Chapter 6. From Garbage Collection to Controll Mechanisms for Mobile Agents….Pages 79-102
Chapter 7. Comparing the Mechanisms….Pages 103-110
Chapter 8. Conclusion….Pages 111-113
Appendix A. Fundamentals of Probability Theory….Pages 115-117
Appendix B. Introduction to Fault Tolerance….Pages 119-123
Appendix C. Fault Tolerance and Message Complexity….Pages 125-141
Back Matter….Pages –