Concepts and experiments in computational reflection
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Market-based resource control for mobile agents
AGENTS '98 Proceedings of the second international conference on Autonomous agents
JRes: a resource accounting interface for Java
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Resource Management for Safe Languages
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MA '02 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Mobile Agents
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Resource awareness is an important step towards the realization of adaptable software, something which is particularly desirable in the context of mobile code and mobile agent environments. Since resources (CPU, memory, network bandwidth, etc.) are not available and manipulable as first-class entities in standard programming models, such as in the Java language, some kind of reification seems indispensable. This is however difficult to achieve, especially if portability is a requirement. In this paper we describe a mobile agent execution environment that reifies several aspects of both the execution environment itself and of the mobile agents it hosts. We explain how resources consumed by an agent are reified directly from the agent code. Performance measurements show that our approach incurs only moderate overhead.