System Name: Plangent
Current Version: 1.0beta7
Organization: TOSHIBA Corp.
Entry status: authoritative
Supported platforms:
Windows95/NT4.0
Solaris2.51 or later
Supported languages:
Java(JDK1.1 or later)
Implemented standards: none
Type of migration:
strong
How many threads or processes are possible per agent? depends on the performance of the Java Virtual Machine
Local communication mechanisms and format of data:
Knowledge exchange can be done via local knowledge bases.
The format of knowledge is left to each applications.
Global communication mechanisms:
optional
How the communication partner can be addressed:
indirect communication using knowledge bases
Resource access control mechanism:
configurable policies
Agent tracking:
name service
Directory of services:
global
Type of code migration:
all classes as a whole from sending host
Other special features:
Plangent is the INTELLIGENT mobile agent system which based on PLANNING technology.
It is designed to realize autonomous and flexible mobile agent architecture for wide, open, and dynamic networks.
The agents can produce their own plans (mobile codes) by themselves using their planning functionality.
The planning can be done anytime in agents' life cycle automatically, so agents can change their own code dynamically.
It is effective for the agents to adopt their execution failures dynamically and autonomously.
Availability:
binary
License terms:
see license terms
Article that describe the current system best:
Ohsuga, A., Nagai, Y., Irie, Y., Hattori, M., and Honiden, S.,
PLANGENT: An Approach to Making Mobile Agents Intelligent,
IEEE Internet Computing, Vol. 1, No. 4 (1997), pp.50-57;
http://computer.org/internet/ic1997/w4050abs.htm
Year of first publication of systems description: 1996
Project URL: http://www2.toshiba.co.jp/plangent/index.htm
Contacts Email Address: plangent-support@ssel.toshiba.co.jp
Last modification date of this entry: Wed Aug 18 10:43:19 MET DST 1999