Chapter 6. Agents
- Iakovos Venieris1,
- Fabrizio Zizza2,
- Thomas Magedanz3
Published Online: 5 OCT 2001
DOI: 10.1002/0470841869.ch6
Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Book Title
Object Oriented Software Technologies in Telecommunications: From Theory to Practice
Additional Information
How to Cite
Magedanz, T., Perdikeas, M. and Venieris, I. (2001) Agents, in Object Oriented Software Technologies in Telecommunications: From Theory to Practice (eds I. Venieris, F. Zizza and T. Magedanz), John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK. doi: 10.1002/0470841869.ch6
Editor Information
- 1
National Technical University of Athens, Greece
- 2
Siemens Information and Communication Networks SpA, Italy
- 3
IKV++ GmbH Informations und Kommunikations Technologie, Germany
Publication History
- Published Online: 5 OCT 2001
ISBN Information
Print ISBN: 9780471623793
Online ISBN: 9780470841860
- Summary
- Chapter
Keywords:
- Distributed Computing;
- Mobile Agents;
- Intelligent Agents;
- Knowledge Query and Manipulation Language;
- Mobile Agent Systems Interoperability Facility
Summary
The focus of this chapter is in mobile agent technologies. A comprehensive overview of the theoretical foundation of intelligent and mobile agent related research is given along with a condensed historiography of this relatively new field. An in depth look of the more technical aspects of commercially available mobile agent platforms is provided in the second half of this chapter. The overview given there allows the reader to gain a unifying perspective of the technologies and capabilities involved and to view mobile agent platforms as a middleware both overlapping and complementing distributed object technologies.