The mobile agents create a new paradigm for data exchange and resource sharing in
rapidly growing and continually changing computer networks. In a distributed system …

The flexibility offered by mobile agents is quite noticeable in distributed computing
environments. However, the greater flexibility of the mobile agent paradigm compared to the …

Mobile agents are being leveraged in both workflow management and grid computing
contexts. The convergence of these two research streams supports execution in the grid …

As Web services are being increasingly adopted as the distributed computing technology to
securely publish application services beyond the firewall, the importance of composing them …

Mobile agents have engrossed substantial attention in recent years, especially in fault
tolerance researches and several approaches have emerged. Fault tolerance design tends …

As a widely used fault tolerance technique, checkpointing has evolved into several
schemes: independent, coordinated, and communication-induced (CIC). Independent and …

The advent of web services brings new promises for organizations that collaborate amongst
themselves through interorganizational workflow (IOW) management systems by providing a …

Healthcare information systems (HCIS) are complex, heterogeneous, and spread out over
multiple locations making their management and exploitation very onerous and lacking …

Communication protocol is an important mechanism in mobile agent systems since agents
need to communicate each other to clinch and achieve their joint goal In this research, we …

Mobile agent technology has become a new paradigm for distributed real-time systems
because of their inherent advantages. In any distributed system, along with other issues …