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Mobility

Agents with the ability to move from one system to another in order to process their tasks locally on that system are called Mobile Agents. The traveling is done on their behalf, like acting on special requirements of their environment.

The Agents keep their current executing state wherever they travel, making it possible continue with their work on the other system. Some languages provide the facility of transferring the execution state (stack) of the Agent during execution, where others just provide the transfer of global variables.



Thomas Letsch 2001-02-21