A Framework-Based Approach to the Development of Network-Aware Applications
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
An Architecture for Exporting Environment Awareness to Mobile Computing Applications
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Market-based resource control for mobile agents
AGENTS '98 Proceedings of the second international conference on Autonomous agents
Intelligent mobile agents in large distributed autonomous cooperative systems
Journal of Systems and Software - Special issue on invited articles on top systems and software engineering scholars
Future Generation Computer Systems - Special issue on metacomputing
A game-theoretic formulation of multi-agent resource allocation
AGENTS '00 Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Autonomous agents
Load Balancing Based on Process Migration for MPI
Euro-Par '97 Proceedings of the Third International Euro-Par Conference on Parallel Processing
Open Resource Allocation for Mobile Code
MA '97 Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Mobile Agents
MA '97 Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Mobile Agents
Sumatra: A Language for Resource-Aware Mobile Programs
MOS '96 Selected Presentations and Invited Papers Second International Workshop on Mobile Object Systems - Towards the Programmable Internet
Workload Characteristics for Process Migration and Load Balancing
ICDCS '97 Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS '97)
Distributed resource monitors for mobile objects
IWOOOS '96 Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Object Orientation in Operating Systems (IWOOOS '96)
ATEC '97 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
Network awareness and mobile agent systems
IEEE Communications Magazine
Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing
Mobile agent strategies for the provision of public goods: An experimental study
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
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Mobile-agent systems show significant promise as the most effective way to harness the power of the Internet and the massive collection of information and opportunity that the Internet holds. However the efficient organization and control of these systems remains one of a number of unsolved problems with this approach to network computing. This paper examines a mobile-agent system with specific focus on environment sensing, preemptive load balancing and open agent markets. Agent behaviour is studied with actual agent systems using progressively sophisticated agent migration strategies.It is shown that actual modeling shows interesting and difficult to predict behaviour in the agent systems. It is shown that mobile agents with relatively simple migration strategies can cause loads in self-regulating agent markets to oscillate. It is further shown that using Autoregressive modeling to predict the market behaviour can allow individual agents to significantly outperform other agents. However the fidelity of the model is critical to the success of the agents. The criticality of good agent strategies and actual agent system modeling is thus highlighted.