The Mobile Agents Paradigm

A mobile agent is an object that migrates through many nodes of a heterogeneous network of computers, under its own control, in order to perform tasks using resources of these nodes. The use of this technology represents a change in the distributed programming paradigm. This approach have provides many benefits to the development of distributed applications but introduce new requirements to the engineering of these systems. This paper presents this paradigms with its issues and benefits, discussing its use in the development of distributed applica-

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