A Policy-Based Infrastructure for the Dynamic Control of Agent Mobility

  • Authors:
  • R. Montanari;G. Tonti

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • POLICY '02 Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks (POLICY'02)
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

There is an increasing research interest toward the mobility of software components. However, mobility adds complexity to the design ofapplications because programmers have to decide when, where and which components to migrate. The typical approach to mobility is toembed migration directives into component code at design time. This makes difficult to dynamically change migration strategies in order toadapt to evolving conditions of the execution environment. This paper advocates a policy-based approach for the specification and dynamiccontrol of component mobility and presents a framework obtained by integrating a policy-based management system in a mobile agentenvironment.