A virtual organization based mobile agent computation model

Abstract

Mobile agent has developed for decade, and widely implemented in distribute computation. However, traditional mobile agents including strong-migration and weak-migration mobile agents still have some weakness. With the fabric of Grid virtual organization architecture, the mobile agent has gain great advantage comparing to those old mobile agents system. In this paper, a novel formalized mobile agent computation model based on the virtual organization is presented. In this model, all the actions of the mobile agents are treated as states. The process of the mobile agents' workflow is controlled by a finite-state-machine. This ensures the atomic action for each mobile agent to avoid the abnormal condition of communication mismatch. This model takes full advantages of strong-migration mode agent, such as robustness and intelligence; it can also overcome the serious weakness of large amount of data transmission existing in the strong-migration mode agent systems. © Springer-Verlag 2004.