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Runtime efficiency of adaptive mobile software agents in pervasive computing environments

Authors:

Kutila Gunasekera,

Shonali Krishnaswamy,

Arkady ZaslavskyAuthors Info & Claims

ICPS '09: Proceedings of the 2009 international conference on Pervasive services

Pages 123 - 132

https://doi.org/10.1145/1568199.1568218

Published: 13 July 2009 Publication History

Abstract

Developing software that can support heterogeneous hardware platforms, adapt to dynamic highly variable environments and meet rapidly changing requirements is a challenge of pervasive computing. Dynamic adaptive software agents are a promising approach to develop software for such environments. We previously proposed an agent architecture which brings together features such as runtime adaptivity, agent mobility, platform-independence, context-awareness and lightweightness which are desirable in pervasive environments. In this paper, we propose and analyse a cost model of network load for our runtime adaptive mobile software agents. We compare our adaptive agents against standard non-adaptive mobile agents using this cost model. Subsequent experimental results demonstrate that our agents outperform non-adaptive mobile agents. We also propose and discuss further features which make our adaptive agent based software solution more suitable for pervasive computing environments.

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Index Terms

Runtime efficiency of adaptive mobile software agents in pervasive computing environments
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Distributed artificial intelligence
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures
      1. Distributed systems organizing principles
        Organizing principles for web applications

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ICPS '09: Proceedings of the 2009 international conference on Pervasive services

July 2009

216 pages

ISBN:9781605586441

DOI:10.1145/1568199

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Bhattacharya A(2012)Mobile agent based elastic executor service2012 Ninth International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering (JCSSE)10.1109/JCSSE.2012.6261978(351-356)Online publication date: May-2012
https://doi.org/10.1109/JCSSE.2012.6261978
Gunasekera KKrishnaswamy SLoke SZaslavsky A(2012)Adaptation Support for Agent Based Pervasive SystemsMobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking, and Services10.1007/978-3-642-29154-8_8(90-101)Online publication date: 2012
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29154-8_8
Gunasekera KLoke SZaslavsky AKrishnaswamy S(2011)IMPROVING EFFICIENCY OF SERVICE-ORIENTED CONTEXT-DRIVEN SOFTWARE AGENTSCybernetics and Systems10.1080/01969722.2011.59533642:5(324-340)Online publication date: 1-Jun-2011
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Gunasekera KZaslavsky AKrishnaswamy SLoke S(2010)Service Oriented Context-Aware Software Agents for Greater EfficiencyAgent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications10.1007/978-3-642-13480-7_8(62-71)Online publication date: 2010
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