Extensions to Jinni Mobile Agent Architecture

We extend the Jinni mobile agent architecture with a multicast network transport layer, an agent-to-agent delegation mechanism and a reflection based Prolog-to-Java interface. To ensure that our agent infrastructure runs efficiently, independently of router-level multicast support, we describe a blackboard based algorithm for locating a randomly roaming agent. As part of the agent-to-agent delegation mechanism, we describe an alternative to code-fetching mechanism for stronger mobility of mobile agents with less network overhead. In the context of direct and reflection based extension mechanisms for Jinni, we describe the design and the implementation of a reflection based Prolog-to-Java interface. The presence of subtyping and method overloading makes finding the most specific method corresponding to a Prolog call pattern fairly difficult. We describe a run-time algorithm which provides accurate handling of overloaded methods beyond Java's reflection package's limitations.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of North Texas

Year dc:date

2001

Author dc:creator

• Tyagi, Satyam

Contributors dc:contributor

• Tarau, Paul
• Jacob, Roy T.
• Mikler, Armin R.

• Mobile agents (Computer software)
• Mobile agents
• multicast
• java reflection
• prolog
• reflection

Statement dc:rights

• Public
• Copyright
• Tyagi, Satyam
• Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

oclc: 50625860
https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2773/
ark: ark:/67531/metadc2773

OAI identifier oai:identifier

info:ark/67531/metadc2773