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Mobile Agents with Timers, and Their Implementation

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Intelligent Distributed Computing IV

Part of the book series: Studies in Computational Intelligence ((SCI,volume 315))

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Implementing code mobility is a difficult task, especially when migration is under some time constraints. In this paper we present a language for mobile agents starting from an architecture and a formalism with timed interactions and explicit locations. The language supports the specification of a distributed system, i.e. agents and their physical distribution, and allows a timed migration in a distributed environment.

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Ciobanu, G., Juravle, C. (2010). Mobile Agents with Timers, and Their Implementation. In: Essaaidi, M., Malgeri, M., Badica, C. (eds) Intelligent Distributed Computing IV. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 315. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15211-5_24

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