Information agents on the move

Abstract

Abstract Information agents process and integrate heterogeneous, distributed information. To achieve this task efficiently, some researchers promote the idea of mobile information agents that migrate between a user's host and other hosts in the network. JACEK GOMOLUCH and MICHAEL SCHROEDER outline the concepts behind mobile information agents and give a survey on load balancing, which aims to optimise distributed information processing. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.