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Along with today’s networks, which are gradually converging and setting the field for universal service markets offering value added services to users on a global scale, their requirements are changing fundamentally. It is becoming increasingly important to provide an enabling technology which allows to meet these new requirements. Mobile agents are being discussed as comprising the potential to be such a technology. In order to use mobile agents for an integrated management, however, two problems need to be solved, namely the problem of non-determinism and the problem of competing goals. This paper closely examines performance aspects of mobile agents and evaluates a solution for the two problems which is based on utility theory.
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Lipperts, S. (2000). How to Efficiently Deploy Mobile Agents for an Integrated Management. In: Linnhoff-Popien, C., Hegering, HG. (eds) Trends in Distributed Systems: Towards a Universal Service Market. USM 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1890. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/10722515_25
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