2015/07/07 by Steve Versteeg, Versteeg, Steve
Computer Science · #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Programming Languages (cs.PL) #cs.PL
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1507.01656
Honours Thesis. Department of Computer Science and Sofware Engineering, University of Melbourne. 1997
arxiv created 2015/07/07 · arxiv updated 2015/07/08
Mobile agents represent a new model for network computing. Many different languages have been used to implement mobile agents. The characteristics that make a language useful for writing mobile agents are: (1) their support of agent migration, (2) their support for agent-to-agent communication, (3) how they allow agents to interact with local resources, (4) security mechanisms, (5) execution efficiency, (6) language implementation across multiple platforms, and (7) the language's ease of programming of the tasks mobile agents perform.