Adaptive Approach for the Regulation of a Mobile Agent Population in a Distributed Network

Mobile agent is a program that can migrate from a machine to another in a network and perform tasks on machines that provide agent hosting capability. The agent can clone itself in order to increase system robustness and efficiency. The clone operation creates multiple instances of an agent to run o...

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Published in:2006 Fifth International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing pp. 360 - 366
Main Authors: Bakhouya, M., Gaber, J.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: IEEE 01.07.2006
Subjects:
Cloning
Context
Costs
Immune system
Information analysis
Information processing
Large-scale systems
Mobile agents
Mobile communication
Robustness
ISBN:9780769526386, 0769526381
ISSN:2379-5352
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Summary:Mobile agent is a program that can migrate from a machine to another in a network and perform tasks on machines that provide agent hosting capability. The agent can clone itself in order to increase system robustness and efficiency. The clone operation creates multiple instances of an agent to run on different machines. However, increasing agent population size, with cloning operation, will increase resource demands in the network, which would indirectly affect network performance. When, the mobile agents operate in a dynamic and distributed environment, it is difficult to estimate a priori the appropriate number of agents allowed to be spawned in the network. This paper focuses on the problem of dynamic regulation of mobile agent population size in a distributed system, and proposes an approach that takes inspiration from the immune system concept
ISBN:9780769526386
0769526381
ISSN:2379-5352
DOI:10.1109/ISPDC.2006.6