Performance Metrics for Mobile Agent Frameworks
In this work we present practical experiences gathered from the employment of two popular Java-based Mobile Agent platforms, IBM Aglets and Mitsubishi's Concordia. These platforms have been used to develop a framework for distributed database access over the World-Wide Web. We compare the two platforms both quantitatively and qualitatively. For the quantitative comparison, we propose and employ an approach to evaluate and analyze Mobile Agent framework performance. For the qualitative assessment, we present our observations from the point of view of programmability, robustness and mobility provided by the two platforms.
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Conferences and Workshops
M. Dikaiakos, M. Kyriakou, G. Samaras (2001) "Performance Evaluation of Mobile-agent Middleware: A Hierarchical Approach", In Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Agents (MA 2001), J.P. Picco (ed.), Lecture Notes of Computer Science series, vol. 2240, pages 244-259, Springer, Atlanta, USA, December 2001 (available in pdf; also, available through the Digital Library of Springer)
M. Dikaiakos, G. Samaras (2001) "A Performance Analysis Framework for Mobile-Agent Systems", First Annual Workshop on Infrastructure for Scalable Multi-Agent Systems, The Fourth International Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents 2000), ACM, Barcelona, June 2000. Wagner and Rana (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1887, pages 180-187, Springer, July 2001 (available through the Digital Library of Springer)
Samaras G., Dikaiakos M., Spyrou C., Liberdos A. (1999) "Mobile Agent Platforms for Web-Databases: A Qualitative and Quantitative Assessment", The Joint Symposium ASA/MA'99. First International Symposium on Agent Systems and Applications (ASA'99). Third International Symposium on Mobile Agents (MA'99), pp. 50-64, USA, 1999
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