Deployment, Configuration and Management of Mobile Actor Systems

F. Cicirelli, A. Furfaro, and L. Nigro (Italy)

Keywords

Mobile agents, service oriented computing, application deployment and management, distributed measurement systems, Java, Internet.

Abstract

This paper describes a software infrastructure -ACTORSERVICE for the management of distributed and time-dependent systems. The infrastructure exploits state-of-art technologies of services and mobile agents. Services are used for deployment, configuration and control of a distributed application. Mobile agents (i.e., actors) are the computational components used to structure the application business logic. A key factor of the adopted computational model is that message-passing among actors can be made time-sensitive through a customizable runtime support. The paper introduces ACTORSERVICE and describes an application to a real-time measurement system.

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