Tesis doctoral de Jordi Cucurull Juan
Mobile agents are autonomous software entities that have the ability to stop and resume their execution in different network locations to accomplish a set of tasks. Despite their apparent simplicity, the fact of sharing a code in different places, in most cases heterogeneous, arises a set of issues which are far from have a simple solution. The proof is that after several years of efforts, a wide-scale deployment of mobile agents has not become a reality. In our opinion the main reasons which have hindered the adoption of mobile agents are: security, interoperability, and efficiency. Security may impose strong restrictions to the use of mobile agents. Nevertheless, enough research to satisfy the most common applications has been done in this field. Interoperability is absolutely indispensable to guarantee that different types of agents can run in different places and exchange information. And efficiency is a non functional requisite which favours the adoption of the technology. the suitability of mobile agents for distributed and heterogeneous environments is unique. The work presented in this thesis is motivated by this fact and comprises four objectives to improve, in this order, the interoperability, efficiency, and security of mobile agents in the context of the ieee-fipa standards. The first objective is the design of a flexible agent mobility specification. The second objective is the proposal of interoperability mechanisms to move and execute agents in several locations supporting different agent middlewares, programming languages, and underlying architectures taking advantage of the previous mobility specification. The third objective is the proposal of methods to improve the efficiency of the agent mobility and interoperability. And finally, the last objective is the design of some protocols to deal with specific security issues of mobile agents.
Datos académicos de la tesis doctoral «Efficient mobility and interoperability of software agents«
- Título de la tesis: Efficient mobility and interoperability of software agents
- Autor: Jordi Cucurull Juan
- Universidad: Autónoma de barcelona
- Fecha de lectura de la tesis: 10/12/2008
Dirección y tribunal
- Director de la tesis
- Joan Borrell Viader
- Tribunal
- Presidente del tribunal: josep Rifa coma
- benno Overeinder (vocal)
- joan Antonio Rodríguez aguilar (vocal)
- Juan ramón Velasco pérez (vocal)