Operating system support for mobile agents: position paper for 5th IEEE Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems
Dag Johansen, Robbert van Renesse, Fred B. Schneider · 1999
An agent is a process that may migrate through a computer network in order to satisfy requests made by its clients. Agents implement a computational metaphor that is analogous to how most people conduct business in their daily lives: visit a place, use a service (perhaps after some negotiation), and then move on. Thus, for the computer illiterate, agents are an