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Visualizing Mobile Agent Executions

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Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications (MATA 2000)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNCS,volume 1931))

Abstract

Code mobility has the potential to provide more flexible and efficient solutions to traditional distributed applications. However, developing distributed programs with code mobility is quite a challenge and so is the understanding of their dynamic behavior. Graphical visualizations are a promising way to help to understand the dynamic behavior of distributed applications, including those that contain mobile agents. This paper addresses two issues: what needs to be visualized and how do we visualize it. We present an innovative approach to visualizing code mobility in the context of processtime diagrams/message sequence charts. An infrastructure that provides tracing facilities and supports both on-line and postmortem visualization is discussed to demonstrate our approach.

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  1. Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Canada

    Yi Wang & Thomas Kunz

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  1. Labo CNRS - LIP6, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 4, Place Jussieu, 75252, Paris Cedex 05, France

    Eric Horlait

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Wang, Y., Kunz, T. (2000). Visualizing Mobile Agent Executions. In: Horlait, E. (eds) Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications. MATA 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1931. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45391-1_8

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