Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Mobile Agents: Control Algorithms

  • Book
  • © 2000

Overview

Authors:
  1. Joachim Baumann

    1. IPVR (Institute for Parallel and Distributed High-Performance Systems), Stuttgart

    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed   Google Scholar

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 1658)

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Download chapter PDF

  2. Chapter 1. Introduction

    • Joachim Baumann
    Pages 1-4

  3. Chapter 2. Mobile Agents

    • Joachim Baumann
    Pages 5-21

  4. Chapter 3. System and Failure Model

    • Joachim Baumann
    Pages 23-24

  5. Chapter 4. Control Mechanisms for Mobile Agents

    • Joachim Baumann
    Pages 25-64

  6. Chapter 5. Distributed Garbage Collection

    • Joachim Baumann
    Pages 65-78

  7. Chapter 6. From Garbage Collection to Controll Mechanisms for Mobile Agents

    • Joachim Baumann
    Pages 79-102

  8. Chapter 7. Comparing the Mechanisms

    • Joachim Baumann
    Pages 103-110

  9. Chapter 8. Conclusion

    • Joachim Baumann
    Pages 111-113

  10. Appendix A. Fundamentals of Probability Theory

    • Joachim Baumann
    Pages 115-117

  11. Appendix B. Introduction to Fault Tolerance

    • Joachim Baumann
    Pages 119-123

  12. Appendix C. Fault Tolerance and Message Complexity

    • Joachim Baumann
    Pages 125-141

  13. Back Matter

    Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

In this monograph, Joachim Baumann provides in-depth coverage of essential research issues; namely, mechanisms for locating and terminating mobile agents and for orphan detection in a mobile agent system. The reader will gain insights into the design and implementation of three control mechanisms for use in mobile agent systems: the energy concept, the path concept, and the shadow concept. The author examines these mechanisms and offers a solid argument as to why they would be better choices over existing mechanisms with respect to message complexity, migration delay, and availability. All in all, this book is an outstanding contribution to advancing the science of mobile agents and it will help the community better understand how to tame mobile agents.

Authors and Affiliations

  • IPVR (Institute for Parallel and Distributed High-Performance Systems), Stuttgart

    Joachim Baumann

Bibliographic Information

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation