Mobile agents

• Executing program

• Migrates by choice

• Heterogeneous systems

• Interacts with other agents

• Efficient

  • Access resources locally
  • Offload from underpowered client
  • Offload from overloaded servers

• Mobile computing

• Dynamic deployment

• Convenience

Single general framework in which distributed applications can be implemented easily, efficiently and robustly

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