Mobile Agents: Principles of Operation and Applications (Advances in Management Information)

Mobile agents are intelligent agents with advanced mobility capabilities. A
mobile agent must be provided with so-called strong mobility, a feature
that allows it to carry its status with it and accomplish its mission by migrating from site to site on the Internet. A mobile agent can complete on
one site what it started on another site.

Starting from the mobile agent concept, this book provides the reader with a suitably detailed discussion on mobile agent principles of operation, as for instance, migration, communication, coordination, interoperability, fault
tolerance and security. As an example of application fields for mobile
agents, the book discusses how they can be effective in implementing data
mining and information retrieval systems.