Parallelism in Mobile Agent Network

Abstract The paper deals with parallel mobile agents and related performance evaluation framework. A model called mobile agent network is proposed. It includes a multi-agent system consisting of co-operating and communicating mobile agents, a set of processing nodes in which the agents perform services and a network that connects processing nodes and allows agent mobility. Parallelism in mobile agent network is based on parallel agents allocated to a single task requested from the environment. Mobile agent network is defined as queuing system where the agents represent information units to be served. Simulation based method for performance evaluation is included.

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