Mobile Agents: Are They A Good Idea?
by David Chess, Colin Harrison, and Aaron Kershenbaum
Abstract:
Mobile agents are programs, typically written in a script language,
which may be dispatched from a client computer and transported to a
remote server computer for execution. Several authors have suggested
that mobile agents offer an important new method of performing
transactions and information retrieval in networks. Other writers have
pointed out, however, that mobile agent introduce severe concerns for
security. We consider the advantages offered by mobile agents and
assess them against alternate methods of achieving the same
function. We conclude that, while the individual advantages of agents
do not represent an overwhelming motivation for their adoption, the
creation of a pervasive agent framework facilitates a very large
number of network services and applications.
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