A Survey of Mobile Agent Systems
Syed Farid Syed Adnan, John Datuin, Pavana Yalamanchili · 2000
As the Internet constantly expands, the amount of available on-line information expands as well [3]. The issue of how to efficiently find, gather, and retrieve this information has led to the research and development of systems and tools that attempt to provide a solution to this problem. These systems and tools are based on the use of mobile agents. Mobile agents are processes (i.e., executing programs) that can migrate from one machine of a system to another