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We advocate the event-based communication genre for mobile agent communities, which is useful for exchanging and disseminating large volumes of small lightweight messages. We propose that the publish-subscribe model complements the proprietary or standard agent communication languages. We describe how we implemented the event notification mechanism for mobile agents, and analyse experiments that demonstrate the Elvin-based event notification mechanism for communication between heterogeneous agents, in particular, Grasshopper agents and Aglets. We also discuss experiments for measuring message losses due to agent migration.
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Padovitz, A., Loke, S.W., Zaslavsky, A. (2003). Using the Publish-Subscribe Communication Genre for Mobile Agents. In: Schillo, M., Klusch, M., Müller, J., Tianfield, H. (eds) Multiagent System Technologies. MATES 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2831. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39869-1_16
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