Agent Surgery: The Case for Mutable Agents

We argue that mutable programs are an important class of future applications. The field of software agents is an important beneficiary of mutability. We evaluate existing mutable applications and discuss basic requirements to legitimize mutability techniques. Agent surgery supports runtime mutability in the agent framework of the Bond distributed object system.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: IPPS
• Authors: Ladislau Bölöni, Dan C. Marinescu
• Keywords: Distributed And Parallel Computing, IPPS 2000, Mutability, Mutability Techniques, Runtime Mutability