A Case for Mobile Agent Patterns
Dwight Deugo, Michael A. Weiss · 1999
In this position paper, we make a case for the development of mobile agent patterns. Patterns have proven extremely useful to the object-oriented programming community. However, of the large amount of pattern research, little effort has been devoted to developing mobile agent patterns. We wish to correct this situation. We believe that the ongoing success of mobile agent systems depends on the development of software engineering principles for them. Patterns are a recognized means to this end, and one that we wish