Transportable Information Agents

  • Authors:
  • Daniela Rus;Robert Gray;David Kotz

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College, Hanover NH 03755.;Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College, Hanover NH 03755.;Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College, Hanover NH 03755.

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Intelligent Information Systems - Special issue: adaptive intelligent agents
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

Transportable agents are autonomous programs. They can movethrough a heterogeneous network of computers migrating from host tohost under their own control. They can sense the state of thenetwork, monitor software conditions, and interact with other agentsor resources. The network-sensing tools allow our agents to adapt tothe network configuration and to navigate under the control ofreactive plans. In this paper we describe the design andimplementation of a transportable-agent system and focus on navigationtools that give our agents autonomy. We also discuss the intelligentand adaptive behavior of autonomous agents in distributed information-access tasks.