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Transportable Agents Support Worldwide Applications, David Kotz, Robert Gray, Daniela Rus
Transportable Agents Support Worldwide Applications, David Kotz, Robert Gray, Daniela Rus
Dartmouth Scholarship
Worldwide applications exist in an environment that is inherently distributed, dynamic, heterogeneous, insecure, unreliable, and unpredictable. In particular, the latency and bandwidth of network connections varies tremendously from place to place and time to time, particularly when considering wireless networks, mobile devices, and satellite connections. Applications in this environment must be able to adapt to different and changing conditions. We believe that transportable autonomous agents provide an excellent mechanism for the construction of such applications. We describe our prototype transportable-agent system and several applications.
Worldwide applications exist in an environment that is inherently distributed, dynamic, heterogeneous, insecure, unreliable, and unpredictable. …
Autonomous And Adaptive Agents That Gather Information, Daniela Rus, Robert Gray, David Kotz
Autonomous And Adaptive Agents That Gather Information, Daniela Rus, Robert Gray, David Kotz
Dartmouth Scholarship
We have designed and implemented autonomous software agents. Autonomous software agents navigate independently through a heterogeneous network of computers. They can sense the state of the network, monitor software conditions, and interact with other agents. The network-sensing tools allow our agents to adapt to the network configuration and to navigate under the control of reactive plans. In this paper we illustrate the intelligent and adaptive behavior of autonomous agents in distributed information-gathering tasks.