Inter platform agent mobility in FIPA compliant multi-agent systems
Surayya Malik, Nauman A. Qureshi, Hafiz Farooq Ahmad, Hiroki Suguri, Arshad Ali · 2005
Agent mobility is an important aspect of any multi-agent system (MAS). It provides a new paradigm to application developers as the real strength of agents can only be realized when they become mobile. We have proposed a mechanism to achieve intra-platform and inter-platform agent migration in a multi-agent system by customizing agent communication channel module. We have evaluated our proposed solution in comparison with remote method invocation (RMI) and found it to be efficient and scalable. It supports the existing features of core agent systems and provides an additional opportunity to employ mobile agents by the application developers.