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Interoperability of mobile agents for ubiquitous applications
Author(s) -
Hasegawa Tetsuo,
Cho Kenta,
Ohsuga Akihiko,
Kumeno Fumihiro,
Nakajima Shin,
Honiden Shinichi
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
electrical engineering in japan
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.136
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 1520-6416
pISSN - 0424-7760
DOI - 10.1002/eej.20388
Subject(s) - interoperability , incarnation , mobile agent , computer science , multi agent system , architecture , simple (philosophy) , process (computing) , computer security , engineering , distributed computing , world wide web , artificial intelligence , operating system , geography , theology , philosophy , archaeology , epistemology
A mobile agent is an important platform for applications for the coming ubiquitous society. Many different kinds of mobile agent platforms have been developed. However, agents from one agent platform are generally not able to migrate into another agent platform. As a solution to this problem, we propose an interoperability concept using an incarnation agent. The concept realizes logical mobility within different kinds of agent platforms. The incarnation agent extracts an agent's procedures and status, compiling them into agent platform independent format and then re‐compiling them to target agent platform format, thus enabling the process to continue. The incarnation agent also has autonomy for interoperability. It manages complex migration for interoperability, so agent's procedure can be described in simple mobile model. Moreover, the incarnation agent modifies agent's procedures as applicable to facilities of target agent platform. This paper also reports an interoperability middle‐ware and its examination. The middle‐ware is a foundation of realizing the Incarnation Agent, and the response time and network traffic overheads by the interoperability middle‐ware has been measured. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Electr Eng Jpn, 161(4): 49–59, 2007; Published online in Wiley InterScience ( www.interscience.wiley.com ). DOI 10.1002/eej.20388