Author : A. Genco
Publisher : WIT Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781845640606
Mobile Agents by A. Genco Pdf
Mobile agents are intelligent agents with advanced mobility capabilities. A mobile agent must be provided with the so called strong mobility, a feature which allows it to carry its status with it and accomplish its mission by migrating from site to site in the Internet. A mobile agent can complete in a site what it started in another site.Starting from the mobile agent concept, this book provides the reader with a suitably detailed discussion on mobile agent principles of operation, as for instance, migration, communication, co-ordination, interoperability, fault tolerance and security. As an example of mobile agents application fields, this book discusses how they can be effective in implementing data mining and information retrieval systems.