Coordinating Multiagent Applications on the WWW: A Reference Architecture
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Client-server computing in mobile environments
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
XML dataspaces for mobile agent coordination
SAC '00 Proceedings of the 2000 ACM symposium on Applied computing - Volume 1
Information retrieval on the web
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Outlook 2000 VBA Programmer's Reference
Outlook 2000 VBA Programmer's Reference
Mobile software agents: an overview
IEEE Communications Magazine
Mobile agents and their use for information retrieval: a brief overview and an elaborate case study
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
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The mobile agent technology is likely to epitomize an enabler for sustaining handy information retrieval services. This will be the case in the future when wireless and small footprint devices become ubiquitous, requiring performance, customization and device independence. Mobile agents are a worth candidate to overcome the limitations of such environments. This paper proposes an extensible mobile-agent-based framework for coordinating distributed information retrieval applications. It leverages the emerging XML and agent-technology standards to encode content exchanges. We motivate the use of multiple cooperating agents to engineer handy information retrieval applications (e.g., mobile web crawler, mobile bargain hunter, mobile event scheduler) in order to improve performance. The required coordination scheme may be centralized, hierarchical peer-to-peer, or hybrid. The measurements made on the single-mobile scheduler prototype indicate that the mobile-agent approach can outperform an even optimally designed client-server counterpart.