Context-dependent Coordination for Engineering Mobile Agent Applications
Mobility is both a feature and an intrinsic property of Internet agents.
However, mobility calls for suitable coordination models and infrastructures.
The talk introduces the concept of context-dependent coordination and
shows how it can be enforced by a coordination infrastructure based on
programmable local interaction spaces. The main underlying ideas
are that (i) local interaction spaces associated to different execution
environments can be independently programmed so as to lead to
differentiated, environment-dependent behaviors, and (ii) mobile
Internet agents can program the interaction spaces of the visited
execution environments to obtain an application-dependent behavior
of the interaction spaces themselves.
The talk will show how context-dependent coordination represents
a powerful framework for the analysis and design of Internet-agent
systems, by promoting a more modular approach to analysis,
design, and development.