Dimensions and issues of mobile agent technology

TL;DR

This paper reviews mobile agent technology, discussing its characteristics, applications, and constraints, and provides a case study on its use in information retrieval, highlighting its potential in mobile computing.

Contribution

It offers a comprehensive overview of mobile agent concepts, classifications, and applications, including a case study demonstrating practical use in information retrieval.

Findings

Mobile agents are useful in network and information management.

They face technical constraints in mobile technology.

Case study shows effective information retrieval using mobile agents.

Abstract

Mobile Agent is a type of software system which acts "intelligently" on one's behalf with the feature of autonomy, learning ability and most importantly mobility. Now mobile agents are gaining interest in the research community. In this article mobile agents will be addressed as tools for mobile computing. Mobile agents have been used in applications ranging from network management to information management. We present mobile agent concept, characteristics, classification, need, applications and technical constraints in the mobile technology. We also provide a brief case study about how mobile agent is used for information retrieval.