Transportable Information Agents

Transportable agents are autonomous programs. They can move through a heterogeneous network of computers under their own control, migrating from host to host. They can sense the state of the network, monitor software conditions, and interact with other agents or resources. The network-sensing tools allow our agents to adapt to the network conguration and to navigate under the control of reactive plans. In this paper we describe the design and implementation of the navigation system that gives our agents autonomy. We also discuss the intelligent and adaptive behavior of autonomous agents in distributed informationgathering tasks.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1997
• Where: AGENTS
• Authors: Daniela Rus, Robert S. Gray, David Kotz
• Keywords: AGENTS 1997, Autonomous Programs, Monitor Software Conditions, Security Privacy, Transportable Agents