Portable Resource Reification in Java-Based Mobile Agent Systems

Portable Resource Reification in Java-Based Mobile Agent Systems (2001)

by Alex Villazón , Walter Binder

Venue:	In Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Conference on Mobile Agents (MA'01
Citations:	6 - 1 self

Datum	Value	Source
TITLE	Portable Resource Reification in Java-based Mobile Agent Systems	INFERENCE
AUTHOR NAME	Alex Villazón	SVM HeaderParse 0.1
AUTHOR AFFIL	1 University of Geneva	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR ADDR	Switzerland	SVM HeaderParse 0.1
AUTHOR NAME	Walter Binder	SVM HeaderParse 0.1
AUTHOR AFFIL	1 University of Geneva	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR ADDR	Switzerland	SVM HeaderParse 0.1
ABSTRACT	Abstract. Resource awareness is an important step towards the realization of adaptable software, something which is particularly desirable in the context of mobile code and mobile agent environments. Since resources (CPU, memory, network bandwidth, etc.) are not available and manipulable as first-class entities in standard programming models, such as in the Java language, some kind of reification seems indispensable. This is however difficult to achieve, especially if portability is a requirement. In this paper we describe a mobile agent execution environment that reifies several aspects of both the execution environment itself and of the mobile agents it hosts. We explain how resources consumed by an agent are reified directly from the agent code. Performance measurements show that our approach incurs only moderate overhead. 1	SVM HeaderParse 0.1
YEAR	2001	INFERENCE
VENUE	In Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Conference on Mobile Agents (MA'01	INFERENCE
VENUE TYPE	CONFERENCE	INFERENCE
CITATIONS	25 found	ParsCit 1.0