The discoveries of continuations
Lisp and Symbolic Computation - Special issue on continuations—part I
Designing distributed applications with mobile code paradigms
ICSE '97 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Software engineering
A framework for classifying and comparing architecture description languages
ESEC '97/FSE-5 Proceedings of the 6th European SOFTWARE ENGINEERING conference held jointly with the 5th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
FMOODS '97 Proceedings of the IFIP TC6 WG6.1 international workshop on Formal methods for open object-based distributed systems
Seven good reasons for mobile agents
Communications of the ACM
A performance evaluation of the mobile agent paradigm
Proceedings of the 14th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications
Defining Open Software Architectures for Customized Remote Execution of Web Agents
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
MA '98 Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Mobile Agents
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The mobile agent technology is emerging as a useful new way of building large distributed systems. The advantages of mobile agents over the traditional client-server model are mainly non-functional. We believe that one of the reasons preventing the wide-spread use of mobile agents is that non-functional properties are not easily grasped by system designers. Selecting the right interactions to implement complex services is therefore a tricky task. In this paper, we tackle this problem by considering efficiency and security criteria. We propose a language-based framework for the specification and implementation of complex services built from interactions with primitive services. Mobile agents, RPC, remote evaluation, or any combination of these forms of interaction can be expressed in this framework. We show how to analyze (i.e. assess and compare) complex service implementations with respect to efficiency and security properties. This analysis provides guidelines to service designers, enabling them to systematically select and combine different types of protocols for the effective realization of interactions with primitive services.