Leveraging Legacy Scientific S oft ware with Mobile Agent Technology
Shanhani Markus, Elias N. Houstis · Purdue e-Pubs (Purdue University System) · 1999
Growth in telecommunications and high-speed networking technology has increased the speed and reach of the global network. This in twn has fueled a surge in net-centric, distributed applications. &ientif'rc computing applications too have begun to joUow this design and development trend. Howeuer, many of these applications have to deal with the incorporation oj legacy scient!fte code. This [email protected] has signyICanUy redu!:ed the use oj relevant modem distributed programming technology in new sCientifIC applicalions. In Otis paper, we present a two-tiered agent technique to insert legacy scientifu: code within scientyte applications rhat: use mobile agent technology_ We demonstrate the viability oj this approach with a prototype implementation and discuss its use in speCifIC scientylC applications.