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An overview of AgentSpace: A next-generation mobile agent system

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Mobile Agents (MA 1998)

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This paper gives an overall overview of the AgentSpace framework, a next-generation Java mobile agent system developed on top of the ObjectSpace Voyager system. We first introduce the notion of dynamic and distributed agent-based applications and argue that the AgentSpace features are suitable to support them. The AgentSpace novelties include: flexible and dynamic association between agents, security policies and users; transparency of agent location through the use of views; and easy and clean way to create agents through the use of abstract classes and method factories.

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  1. INESC & IST, Technical University of Lisbon, Rua Alves Redol, nâ„´ 9, 1000, Lisboa, Portugal

    Alberto Silva, Miguel Mira da Silva & José Delgado

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  1. Alberto Silva
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Silva, A., Mira da Silva, M., Delgado, J. (1998). An overview of AgentSpace: A next-generation mobile agent system. In: Rothermel, K., Hohl, F. (eds) Mobile Agents. MA 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1477. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0057655

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