Building and Selecting Mobile Agents for Network Management
Journal of Network and Systems Management
Knowledge-Based Support of Network Management Tasks Using Active Information Resource
IAT '06 Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM international conference on Intelligent Agent Technology
International Journal of Information and Communication Technology
Reusable mobile agents for cluster computing
International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking
Agent mobility architecture based on IEEE-FIPA standards
Computer Communications
Test-bed platform for bio-inspired distributed systems
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information and Computing Sytems
Bio-Inspired Deployment of Software over Distributed Systems
IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Self-organizing software components in distributed systems
ARCS'07 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Architecture of computing systems
A Grid resource brokering strategy based on resource and network performance in Grid
Future Generation Computer Systems
Future Generation Computer Systems
A scalable contents distribution service using a java agent application framework
MMNS'05 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services
Bio-inspired organization for multi-agents on distributed systems
BioADIT'06 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Biologically Inspired Approaches to Advanced Information Technology
Self-Deployment of distributed applications
FIDJI'04 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Scientific Engineering of Distributed Java Applications
Mobile agents for ambient intelligence
MMAS'04 Proceedings of the First international conference on Massively Multi-Agent Systems
A document-centric component framework for document distributions
ODBASE'06/OTM'06 Proceedings of the 2006 Confederated international conference on On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: CoopIS, DOA, GADA, and ODBASE - Volume Part II
Bio-inspired deployment of distributed applications
PRIMA'04 Proceedings of the 7th Pacific Rim international conference on Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Organization and mobility in mobile agent computing
ProMAS'05 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Programming Multi-Agent Systems
Bio-inspired self-organization for supporting dynamic reconfiguration of modular agents
Mathematical and Computer Modelling: An International Journal
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Mobile agents can migrate among nodes to perform a set of management tasks at each of the visited nodes. Existing mobile agent-based network management systems often assume that their mobile agents are designed to work in particular networks to raise the efficiency of agent migration among multiple nodes. Unfortunately, such mobile agents cannot be reused in different networks. This paper proposes a framework where a mobile agent for network management is composed of two kinds of software components, an itinerary part and a behavioral logic part. Both components are implemented as mobile agents. The former is a carrier designed for particular networks, and it can efficiently navigate other mobile agents among nodes in its target network. The latter defines management tasks performed at each node independently of any local network. This framework allows a mobile agent for network management to be reused in various networks without being modified. A prototype implementation of this framework and its application were built on a Java-based mobile agent system.