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Insisting on persistent mobile agent systems

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Abstract

In this paper we continue arguing that persistence is a fundamental requirement to support the development of next-generation agent-based applications. After a general overview of mobility and persistence to clarify the main issues discussed in the paper, we propose a tentative list of facilities that should be supported by persistent mobile agent systems. The main contribution of the paper is a survey of existing persistent and mobile agent systems that includes a comparison based on how well (or badly) they support the proposed list of facilities.

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  1. University of Évora, Rua Romão Ramalho 59, 7000, Évora, Portugal

    M. Mira da Silva

  2. INESC, Rua Alves Redol 9, 1100, Lisboa, Portugal

    A. Rodrigues da Silva

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da Silva, M.M., da Silva, A.R. (1997). Insisting on persistent mobile agent systems. In: Rothermel, K., Popescu-Zeletin, R. (eds) Mobile Agents. MA 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1219. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-62803-7_33

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