Research and Development of Mobile Agent-Based Platform for Collaborative Computing

Mobile Agents have been shown to be a promising approach to addressing the
issues of ubiquitous computing: they have advantages in managing vast amount of
information available in the fixed network, relieving the problems of slow, unreliable
connectivity, and limited capacity inherited in mobile computers. Mobile Agent
Infrastructure provides a computing platform in the configurable, scalable, and
initiative way. XML as an information markup language has the ability to do
information exchange on the Internet across the different platforms and operating
systems. It is the most potential technology to integrate the systems and services in
the same and different organizations on the Intranet, Extranet, and Internet.
The Mobile Agent Infrastructure will support collaborative computing by
providing an easily used distributed services development interface. The collaborative
computing service developer can use this interface to develop the collaborative
computing applications. At the same time, the Mobile Agent Infrastructure can hide
the heterogeneous among the different platform to provide the ability of platform
independent and scalability.