The benefits of using mobile agents in distributed environments

  • Authors:
  • Zahra Ahmadi-Brooghani

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Engineering Department, The University of Birjand, Birjand, Iran

  • Venue:
  • ICCOMP'06 Proceedings of the 10th WSEAS international conference on Computers
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

As the internet constantly expands, the amount of available on-line information expands as well. The issue of how to efficiently find, gather, and retrieve this information has led to the research and development of systems and tools that attempt to provide a solution to this problem. These systems and tools are based on the use of mobile agents.This paper is comprised of two sections: the first section is a review of general concepts and the specifications of agents and e-commerce (as distributed environment), and also mobile agents which are special types of agents and the second section begins with the benefits of using agents with review some application, those used agents to increased efficiency and robustness, followed by important factors that enhance the functionality and performance of mobile agents.