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The notion of mobile agent, a software component that is able to migrate autonomously among the hosts of a distributed system, is enjoying wide popularity as a novel abstraction for structuring distributed applications.
A number of advantages are usually claimed for mobile agents, including the potential for a more efficient use of communication resources, improved fault tolerance, support for disconnected operations, and in general enhanced flexibility.
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Pietro Picco, G. (2001). Mobile Agents: State of the Art and Research Opportunities. In: Klusch, M., Zambonelli, F. (eds) Cooperative Information Agents V. CIA 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2182. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44799-7_27
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