SYMPOSIUM MINISYMPOSIA

ABSTRACT

Mobile Agent (MA) systems allow for objects to travel autonomously across different nodes of a network and then continue execution once the destination has been reached. Current MA systems utilize technologies like Java, for example, for creating an operating system independent infrastructure. This paper proposes Mobile Agent Markup Language (MAML) as an architecture upon which the deployment of Mobile Agents will be based. MAML maintains the operating system independence that is needed for any mobile agent architecture as the document is interpreted by the agent server. There are several other advantages for using MAML over other MA systems. The proposed architecture uses the existing HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) protocol that is being used for transportation of HTML documents over the network. The HTTP protocol has been in use for years and has proven to work efficiently for transporting HTML documents from which MAML documents are no different. Another advantage deals with the size of the agent itself. Current MA systems develop an agent that is relatively large as it incorporates utilities and functions that are rarely used. In addition, the MAML infrastructure allows for agents to drop the parts of their itinerary that has already been satisfied rendering themselves smaller for more efficient transportation. The MAML design is not for general purpose remote processing, yet it is for the execution of specific tasks that are mostly used in business and transaction-based environments.

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