Agents Go Traveling

This paper is concerned with infrastructural support for nomadic agents. Agent migration provides a wide range of advantages and benefits to system designers, however issues relating to security and integrity mobile agents has mitigated against the harvesting of their true potential. Within this paper we introduce the Agent Travel Metaphor (ATM) which offers a comprehensive metaphor fostering integrating of control and security for mobile agents. We describe the metaphor together with its incorporation within the Agent Factory multi-agent system.

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