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In recent years popularity of Mobile-Agent systems makes it one of the promising technologies for developing intelligent software systems. The most important issues in the Mobile-Agent system are the migration of agent which can be categorized as Strong or weak. Strong mobility allows the agents to migrate without loss of execution state at any time, a powerful mechanism for implementing peer-to-peer computing environment. We have designed and implemented a strong mobility framework for SAGE (Scalable Fault Tolerant Agent Grooming Environment). Our key objective is to offer efficient and reliable infrastructure for agent’s strong mobility. We have performed a number of experiments to quantitatively evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of our proposed architecture.
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Iqbal, J., Ahmad, H.F., Ali, A., Suguri, H., Sadik, S. (2006). Strong Mobility for FIPA Compliant Multi-agent Systems. In: Shi, ZZ., Sadananda, R. (eds) Agent Computing and Multi-Agent Systems. PRIMA 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4088. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11802372_100
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