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TY - GEN
T1 - aZIMAS
T2 - Web mobile agent system
AU - Arumugam, S.
AU - Helal, Sumi
AU - Nalla, A.
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - Mobile Agents technology opens up new avenues in personalizing and customizing the web experience of users. It provides new possibilities for deploying distributed applications using existing web infrastructure. One of the reasons why mobile agents are not yet popular on the web is due to the lack of an easily deployable framework that would facilitate their existence. Existing mobile agent systems usually require heavy infrastructure that lacks interoperability if deployed on the Internet. In this paper, we describe aZIMAS (almost Zero Infrastructure Mobile Agent System) – a framework that will enable the execution of lightweight mobile agents on the Internet and remove some of the constraints imposed by existing systems. aZIMAS uses existing platform independent protocols like HTTP to achieve code mobility and agent interaction. Our approach involves adding a minimal infrastructure layer, called Agent Environment (AE), over existing web servers and using web browsers as clients. By basing our framework firmly on existing web servers and browsers, we hope to leverage the pervasiveness of web browsers and servers and achieve similar pervasiveness for mobile agents. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2002.
AB - Mobile Agents technology opens up new avenues in personalizing and customizing the web experience of users. It provides new possibilities for deploying distributed applications using existing web infrastructure. One of the reasons why mobile agents are not yet popular on the web is due to the lack of an easily deployable framework that would facilitate their existence. Existing mobile agent systems usually require heavy infrastructure that lacks interoperability if deployed on the Internet. In this paper, we describe aZIMAS (almost Zero Infrastructure Mobile Agent System) – a framework that will enable the execution of lightweight mobile agents on the Internet and remove some of the constraints imposed by existing systems. aZIMAS uses existing platform independent protocols like HTTP to achieve code mobility and agent interaction. Our approach involves adding a minimal infrastructure layer, called Agent Environment (AE), over existing web servers and using web browsers as clients. By basing our framework firmly on existing web servers and browsers, we hope to leverage the pervasiveness of web browsers and servers and achieve similar pervasiveness for mobile agents. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2002.
KW - Agent systems
KW - Mobile agents
KW - World wide web
KW - HTTP
KW - Internet
KW - Interoperability
KW - Web browsers
KW - Web services
KW - World Wide Web
KW - Agent interaction
KW - Distributed applications
KW - Lightweight mobile agents
KW - Mobile agent system
KW - Mobile agents technologies
KW - Platform independent
KW - Web infrastructure
U2 - 10.1007/3-540-36112-X_1
DO - 10.1007/3-540-36112-X_1
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
SN - 3540000852
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
SP - 1
EP - 15
BT - International Conference on Mobile Agents
A2 - Suri, N.
PB - Springer
CY - Berlin
ER -