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In this paper, we propose a mobile agent platform as an alternative to a message passing approach to solve a distributed search problem. The search problem is analyzed from two different perspectives, the single travelling agent case and the multiple travelling agents case. We conduct several experiments to measure the performance of the mobile agent solutions as well as the stationary agents for different network topologies and observe that the multiple agents approach performs better when the number of nodes in the network increases. The tree topology, in particular, gives the best overall performance among all topologies considered.
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Elio, V., Nicola, S., Amiya, N. (2001). A Mobile Agent Prototype for Distributed Search. In: Pierre, S., Glitho, R. (eds) Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications. MATA 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2164. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44651-6_23
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