Communications of the ACM
Seven good reasons for mobile agents
Communications of the ACM
Bayanihan: building and studying web-based volunteer computing systems using Java
Future Generation Computer Systems - Special issue on metacomputing
The PaCMAn metacomputer: parallel computing with Java mobile agents
Future Generation Computer Systems - Java in high-performance computing
An Evaluation of the Java-Based Approaches to Web Database Access
CooplS '02 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems
Concordia: An Infrastructure for Collaborating Mobile Agents
MA '97 Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Mobile Agents
MASIF: The OMG Mobile Agent System Interoperability Facility
MA '98 Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Mobile Agents
A world-wide distributed system using Java and the Internet
HPDC '96 Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing
Mobile Agents for WWW Distributed Database Access
ICDE '99 Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Data Engineering
Mobile agent-based services for view materialization
ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review
PALLAS: A Querying Interface for Pervasive Computing using Handheld Devices
ICPS '04 Proceedings of the The IEEE/ACS International Conference on Pervasive Services
Messengers: Distributed Programming Using Mobile Agents
Journal of Integrated Design & Process Science
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In this paper we present Parallel Computing with Mobile Agents (PaCMAn), a mobile agent based Metacomputer that enables its users to utilize idle resources on the internet to tackle computational problems that could not be handled efficiently with their own resources. The PaCMAn launches multiple mobile agents that cooperate and communicate to solve problems in parallel. Each agent supports the basic communication and synchronization tasks of the classical parallel worker assuming the role of a process in a parallel processing application. Application tasks, however, are assigned dynamically to the PaCMAn's mobile agents via TaskHandlers. TaskHandlers are Java objects capable of implementing particular tasks of the application. The PaCMAn consists of three major components: Broker, Server and Client. A server machine has to be explicitly registered in order to take part in the PaCMAn Metacomputer. A number of brokers keep track of the available resources. In the PaCMAn system both server and client machines can be located anywhere in the Internet. The clients select the servers that they will utilize based on the specific resource requirements. We have developed and tested prototype systems with several applications. These prototypes provide proof of concept of our proposed Metacomputing philosophy. Furthermore they have demonstrated that PaCMAn provides parallel efficiency. We also demonstrate that the PaCMAn Metacomputer can be used as the computational engine for the creation of sophisticated Pervasive Services anywhere anytime.