Using the Knowbot Operating Environment in a Wide-Area Network

Mobile agents can optimize their communication patt erns to reduce bandwidth and latency and can adapt to changes in n etwork service. We report on use of the Knowbot Operating Environment to support mobile agents in a wide-area network. Experiments with an application that moni t rs Web pages for changes show that a mobile program can outperform its stati onary counterpart. The performance benefits are obtained by moving clients wi hin the network to reduce the costs of wide-area network connections.

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