A Novel Intelligent Mobile Agent Architecture

Many mobile agents don't have capabilities that can be associated with the intelligence. In this paper, we propose a novel intelligent mobile agent architecture. The proposed architecture combines the advantages of the mobile and static agents. A mobile agent with the proposed architecture may be endowed with capabilities of the intelligent static and mobile agents. 1. The mobile agents' intelligence There are many definitions to the static agents' intelligence [5, 6, 13, 17]. The endowment of a static agent with intelligence in many cases increases his behavioural complexity and the size of the agent's body. The endowment of a mobile agent with the same intelligence as a static agent's intelligence increases the mobile agent body size and his behavioural complexity. The transmission of a large number of intelligent mobile agents in the network may increase the overloading degree of the network. A large number of intelligent mobile agents at a host may overload the host. These reasons demonstrate the difficulties to use intelligent mobile agents with the same intelligence as the static agents' intelligence. The mobile agents are usually assumed to have only a very limited or even no Many of the formal modeling of mobile agents is in terms of their mobility, they are not built upon a framework that explicitly supports the intelligent feature of the agents. Such models are typically reactive rather than pro-active. The mobile agents act in response to their environment, they are not able to exhibit goal directed behaviors. In many situations, the multiagent systems formed by cooperative mobile agents are considered to be intelligent [8, 12, 18, 19]. The mobile agents' intelligence is considered at the level of the multiagent system in which they operate. If the mobile agents cooperate they can solve intelligently difficult tasks.