MAWS: A platform-independent framework for mobile agents using Web services
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
Achieving Mobile Agent Systems interoperability through software layering
Information and Software Technology
Enabling the Reuse of Platform-Dependent Agents in Heterogeneous Agent-Based Applications
Languages, Methodologies and Development Tools for Multi-Agent Systems
A framework for adaptive mobile objects in heterogeneous environments
ODBASE'06/OTM'06 Proceedings of the 2006 Confederated international conference on On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: CoopIS, DOA, GADA, and ODBASE - Volume Part II
Integrating a new mobility service into the jade agent toolkit
MATA'05 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Mobility Aware Technologies and Applications
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The Mobile Agent (MA) paradigm proposes several attractive solutions to deal with the problems of network-centric programming. Despite the availability of several MA platforms, there are still only a few MA-based distributed services. The paper claims that the lack of interoperability is one of the major obstacles to the large-scale diffusion of the MA paradigm, and discusses solutions to permit the inter-working between heterogeneous MA frameworks and other systems, whether MA-based or not, via compliance with either accepted or emerging interoperability standards. In particular, we focus on compliance with CORBA, the accepted standard for OO components, but also with MASIF and FIPA, respectively, the OMG specification for the support of agent mobility and management, and the framework for standard languages and protocols in agent communication. The paper also reports performance results of CORBA-based interoperability in the SOMA programming framework: the presented costs, measured for a systems management application, show the feasibility of the adopted interoperability solutions.