Session:

Multi-Agent Systems
Tuesday, March 02, 2004, 18.15 – 18.35

Session Chair:

Jorge Marx-Gomez

Paper Title:

Mobile Intelligent Agents in Erlang

Author(s):

S. Mandl, University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
R. Bimazubute, University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
H. Stoyan, University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

Abstract:

We present a vision for distributed application programming in peer-to-peer networks based on a modified version of the Procedural Reasoning System that we call ePRS. The original PRS is expanded to provide mobility between nodes, which may be spread over a network of computers. The node concept is strongly linked to the concept of computation environments. We show that the goal-based nature of ePRS agents makes them useable even in environments that were unknown at the time they were defined. The Erlang language, which is used as implementation language provides the basic networking technology. An example from the domain of database consistency is proposed.