System Name: AgentSpace
Current Version: 1.2
Organization: Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (IST/INESC)
Entry status: authoritative
Supported platforms:
execution: all platforms upporting Java JDK 1.1
development: additional make support required
Supported languages:
Java 1.1
Implemented standards: none
Type of migration:
weak
How many threads or processes are possible per agent? unlimited number of threads per agent
Local communication mechanisms and format of data:
(synchronous, asynchronous, future-based sent) messages (any java object)
(synchronous, asynchronous, future-based sent) rpcs (any java object)
Global communication mechanisms:
(synchronous, asynchronous, future-based sent) messages (any java object)
(synchronous, asynchronous, future-based sent) rpcs (any java object)
How the communication partner can be addressed:
via a AgentId object or alternatively a string in the
format <agentspace-server>/<place-id>|<agent-id> (e.g., "berlin.inesc.pt:8888/PID_3|AID_333"
Resource access control mechanism:
configurable policies, tickets
Agent tracking:
??
Directory of services:
??
Type of code migration:
all classes as a whole from code server
Other special features:
Agent-based framework with high-level concepts (e.g., context/places, users, groups of users, permissions, acls)
AgentSpace client: a GUI java standalone/applet application
Flexible way to implement security: security managers associated dynamically to places and agents
Agents with integrated UI components.
Availability:
binary (source code based on a contract)
License terms:
free non-commercial use
Article that describe the current system best:
Alberto Silva, Miguel Mira da Silva, José Delgado. AgentSpace: An Implementation of a Next-Generation Mobile Agent System. (Mobile Agents’98)
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1477, Springer Verlag, 1998.
Year of first publication of systems description: 1997
Project URL: http://berlin.inesc.pt/agentspace/
Contacts Email Address: Alberto.Silva@inesc.pt
Last modification date of this entry: Mon Jul 5 18:26:54 MET DST 1999