Knowbot Programming: system support for mobile agents
J. Hylton, Ken Manheimer, Fred L. Drake, Barry Warsaw, Roger Masse, Guido van Rossum · 2002
Knowbot Programs are mobile agents intended for use in widely distributed systems like the Internet. We describe our experiences implementing security, process migration, and inter-process communication in a prototype system implemented using the object-oriented programming language Python. This infrastructure supports applications that are composed of multiple, autonomous agents that can migrate to use network resources more efficiently.