Mobile agents, DSM, coordination, and self-migrating threads: a Common Framework
Lubomir Bic, Michael B. Dillencourt · 2008
Abstract:- We compare four paradigms that have recently been the subject of considerable attention: mobile agents, distributed shared memory (DSM), coordination paradigms, and self-migrating threads. We place these paradigms in a common framework consisting of three layers—the computational model, its implementation on a physical architecture, and the interface to the system's environment—to demonstrate that self-migrating threads subsume the other three paradigms in terms of their capabilities to organize and coordinate computation, map the concurrent activities onto a multicomputer architecture, and provide an interface for interaction with their environments on the underlying host computers. Key-Words:- Self-migrating threads, mobile agents, DSM, coordination 1