Itinerary determination of imprecise mobile agents with firm deadline

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Rech, Luciana | Montez, Carlos | de Oliveira, Rômulo Silva

Affiliations: Department of Automation and Systems Engineering, Graduate Program in Electrical Engineering, Federal University of Santa Catarina, P.O. Box 47, CEP 88040-900, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil

Note: [] Corresponding author. E-mail: [email protected].

Abstract: In some applications, as part of a mobile agent mission, there may be the necessity of meeting a firm end-to-end deadline, although with some itinerary flexibility due to optional resources. This paper proposes an execution model based on the concept of imprecise mobile agents with timing constraints. In this paper it is considered an execution model where agents do not previously know their itineraries. The imprecise mobile agent may choose among alternative and/or optional resources. The objective is to propose and to evaluate heuristics to be used individually or in pairs by imprecise mobile agents that must accomplish a mission within a firm deadline.

Keywords: Mobile agents, Real-time, Distributed systems

DOI: 10.3233/WIA-2008-0149

Journal: Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An International Journal, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 421-439, 2008