A Mobile Agent-based Architecture for Distributed Program Supervision Systems
Naoufel Khayati, Wided Lejouad Chaari, Sabine Moisan, Jean‐Paul Rigault, Inria Sophia Antipolis · 2005
Abstract:- Program Supervision aims at automating the use of complex programs, independently of any particular application domain. Program Supervision Knowledge-Based Systems (KBS) offer original techniques to plan and control program processing activities. The distribution of such systems becomes essential because real applications imply more and more participants on various sites. It allows either to simply consult existing distant knowledge bases on the use of programs, or to collaboratively construct new knowledge bases, or to launch a request on a distant KBS with local data. Our current application concerns assistance to physicians in the use of medical imagery programs and more precisely osteoporosis detection in bone radiographies. The image processing request management based on several distant programs is transparent to physicians. In this paper, we propose a distributed architecture based on mobile agents for program supervision systems and we show why and how to use mobile agents for such systems. A simple scenario illustrates the functioning of the distributed system when solving a user-request in medical imagery domain.