Mobile Agents Implementing Local Computations in Graphs

  • Authors:
  • Bilel Derbel;Mohamed Mosbah;Stefan Gruner

  • Affiliations:
  • Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale de Lille (LIFL), Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille 1, France;Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique (LaBRI), Université Bordeaux 1/ENSEIRB, France;Department of Computer Science, University of Pretoria, South Africa

  • Venue:
  • ICGT '08 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Graph Transformations
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Mobile agents are a well-known paradigm for the design and implementation of distributed systems. However, whilst their popularity continues to grow, a uniform theory of mobile agent systems is not yet sufficiently elaborated, in comparison with classical models of distributed computation. In this paper we show how to use mobile agents as an alternative model for implementing distributed local computation rules. In doing so, we approach a general and unified framework for local computations which is consistent with the classical theory of distributed computations based on graph relabeling systems.