Mobile Agents: Basic Concepts, Mobility Models, and the Tracy Toolkit [With CDROM] (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781558608177)

Mobile agents are software nomads that act as your personal representative, working autonomously through networks. They are able to visit network nodes directly using available computing power and are not limited by platform. This emerging field is now poised to become a cornerstone for new Web-based ubiquitous computing environments. Mobile Agents provides a practical introduction to mobile agent technology and surveys the state of the art in mobile agent research. Students and researchers can use the book as an introduction to the concepts and possibilities of this field and as an overview of ongoing research. Developers can use it to identify the capabilities of the technology to decide if mobile agents are the right solution for them. Practioners can also gain hands-on experience in programming mobile agents through exploration of the source code for a complete mobile agent environment available through the companion website.

Author: Peter Braun, Wilhelm R. Rossak
ISBN-10: 1558608176
ISBN-13: 9781558608177
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
Language: English
Published: 12/22/2004
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.45lbs
Size: 9.66h x 7.64w x 1.20d