A Logic-based Framework for Mobile Intelligent Information Agents

Information agents are computational software systems that provides transparent access to many different information sources in the Internet, and to be able to retrieve, analyze, manipulate, and integrate heterogeneous data and information on demand. Mobile agents are an effective choice for many applications to improve latency and bandwidth of client-server applications and to reduce vulnerability to network disconnection. In this paper, we propose MiLog, a logic-based mobile agent framework for constructing intelligent information agents. In the framework, inference and planning process of an agent is written in a compact logic program. A new generation logic program execution engine provides strong migration capability with reasonable execution speed. The framework has been used to develop a web-based decision support system 'BiddingBot'. Keywords Information Agents, Mobile Agents, Logic Programming

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2001
• Where: WWW
• Authors: Naoki Fukuta, Takayuki Ito, Toramatsu Shintani
• Keywords: Internet Technology, Keywords Information Agents, Mobile Agent Framework, Mobile Agents, WWW 2001