Adaptive Mobile Agents: Enhanced Flexibility in Internet-Based Remote Operation
Walter Vieira, Luís M. Camarinha-Matos · 2000
The number of applications involving some kind of remote operation over the Internet has been growing in the last years. Most of these applications show high levels of heterogeneity of the equipment to be operated which, in conjunction with the low availability and long time-delays that characterize the Internet, pose serious difficulties to the traditional approaches based on remote procedure calling mechanisms, either in terms of reliability and flexibility. Solutions have been tried to circumvent the dependency on the characteristics of the network, but with the cost of a further degradation in flexibility. In this paper an alternative solution based on adaptive mobile agents is described which overtakes most of these difficulties. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.