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International Workshop on Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications

MATA 2001: Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications pp 21–30Cite as

IMAGO: A Prolog-based System for Intelligent Mobile Agents

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This paper presents the preliminary design of the IMAGO project. This project consists of two major parts: the IMAGO Application Programming Interface (API) - an agent development kit based on Prolog, and the MLVM - a multithreading agent server framework. We focus on the IMAGO API and its communication model - a novel mechanism to automatically track down agents and deliver messages in a dynamic, changing world. Examples are given to show the expressive power and simplicity of the programming interface as well as possible applications of the proposed system.

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  1. Department of Computing and Information Science, University of Guelph, Canada

    Xining Li

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  1. Mobile Computing and Networking Research Laboratory (LARIM) Department of Computer Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, P.O. Box 6079, Station Centre-Ville, Montreal, (Quebec), Canada, H3C 3A7

    Samuel Pierre

  2. Ericsson Research Canada, 8400 Decarie Blvd., Town of Mount Royal, (Quebec), Canada, H4P 2N2

    Roch Glitho

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Li, X. (2001). IMAGO: A Prolog-based System for Intelligent Mobile Agents. 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_3

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