Planning mobile agent architecture for open network environment

This paper describes a planning mobile agent architecture proposed for open network environments such as the Internet. Mobile agents in this architecture have mobile, planning, and meta-level control functionality, and address the locality, variability, and diversity problems to which open network environments are subject. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Syst Comp Jpn, 33(12): 58–66, 2002; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/scj.10112