Mansion: A Structured Middleware Environment for Agents

Developing processes intended to roam in largescale heterogeneous distributed systems is difficult: their environment is unstructured, and interoperability issues often emerge. Mansion is a new paradigm to provide a large-scale structured environment for mobile agents (autonomous migrating processes). Security, transparency, and interoperability are important design guidelines for the development of Mansion.

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