Programming the Mobility Behaviour of Agents by Composing Itineraries

Authors:
Seng Wai Loke;Heinz Schmidt;Arkady B. Zaslavsky
Affiliations:
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Venue:
ASIAN '99 Proceedings of the 5th Asian Computing Science Conference on Advances in Computing Science
Year:
1999

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Abstract

We present an algebra for programming the itineraries of mobile agents. The algebra contains operators for modelling sequential, parallel, nondeterministic, and conditional mobility behaviour. Iterative behaviour is also modelled by a language of regular itineraries borrowing ideas from regular expressions. We give an operational semantics for the operators using Plotkin-style transition rules and provide examples of itineraries for meeting scheduling, sales order processing, and network modelling.