The Mobile Agent List

Names only table of known mobile agent systems

date: 10.3.2000
# system names: 72
# available entries: 58

FAQ

Question: There are several agent lists already published. An example is at http://www.agentbuilder.com/AgentTools/index.html

Answer: Thank you for the hint, but i think the activity we suggested is different to the several www agent lists and has some advantages:

1. restriction to mobile agents
   While perhaps being no market argument, it is important for the researchers in this area to have a look on just the systems that offer the features of mobile agents.

2. completeness
   Mobile agent systems have been created in many groups, not all of them are that visible or publish regularly. Normal www lists are compiled by third parties that try to list as many as possible but must fail under the aspect of completeness. The idea of this list is to let the groups themselves list their systems. This can only be achieved if the list is that important that every group wants to be listed there.

3. maintainance
   When somebody compiles a normal list, he/she often creates it with a lot of effort, maintains it a while, but if he/she will stop maintainance if there are other things to do (which is always the case :-) or if he/she finishes the reason of the activity (e.g. a PhD thesis). If, in contrary, a list is important and if the group maintains their entry themselves, the list lives on.

4. central resource
   The problem with the set of www list is that there are so many, that new ones pop up without being known to the community and that they offer basically the same information. If we achieve to establish a central and commonly accepted list, everyone knows where to look at and does not need to compile one for oneself.

Related Resources

Other mobile agent system surveys etc.