System Name: AMASE
Current Version: 1.1
Organization: AMASE Consortium (ACTS project AC346)
Entry status: authoritative
Supported platforms:
all platforms supporting Java JDK 1.1
Supported languages:
Java 1.1
Implemented standards: none
Type of migration:
weak
How many threads or processes are possible per agent? unlimited
Local communication mechanisms and format of data:
asynchronous messages
synchronous RPC
Global communication mechanisms:
asynchronous messages
synchronous RPC
How the communication partner can be addressed:
mobile agent -> mobile agent:
name of agent plus name of system node
mobile agent -> service:
sevice locations can be looked up in a directory
Resource access control mechanism:
tickets
Agent tracking:
name service
Directory of services:
global, global trading
Type of code migration:
on demand from sending host, on demand from code server
Other special features:
- optimzed for wireless mobile communication environment
- resource negotiation before migration, resource control
- agent signing; access control based on ACLs
- trust concept for defining which platforms an agent user trusts
- service trading with Meta-Keywords
Availability:
not available
License terms:
see licence terms
Article that describe the current system best:
Ernö Kovacs, Hong-Yon Lach, Björn Schiemann, Klaus Röhrle, Carsten Pils: Agent-based Mobile Access to Information Services, Accepted for the ACTS Mobile Summit AMOS’99, June 1999
Year of first publication of systems description: 1999
Project URL: b5www.berkom.de/amase
Contacts Email Address: pascotto@berkom.de
Last modification date of this entry: Thu Jul 29 17:31:54 MET DST 1999