Combining Mobile Agents with Persistent Systems: Opportunities and Challenges (1996)
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@MISC{Silva96combiningmobile,
author = {Miguel Mira da Silva and Miguel Mira and Malcolm Atkinson},
title = {Combining Mobile Agents with Persistent Systems: Opportunities and Challenges},
year = {1996}
}
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Abstract
. In the last three years we have been working with persistence and distribution, in particular migration of higher-level objects (such as procedures) between autonomous persistent programs. In this paper we introduce persistence and the suitability of Napier88 --- the persistent system we have used for our experiments --- as an agent language. We then present a few examples of opportunities and many more challenges that exist in the combination of persistence with agents. 1 Introduction The main motivation for this paper is our perception that free variables and persistence have not been properly addressed by the agent research community. Persistence is important because many of the examples presented in the agent literature include local or remote database access. Free variables are also of interest --- and unavoidable in a persistent environment --- because data and code are highly and strongly inter-connected in the persistent store. This paper is based on our experience with pers...
