Um modelo para o desenvolvimento de aplicações baseadas em agentes móveis.

Abstract

More recently, a new paradigm for developing large-scale distributed applications has emerged: mobile agents. A mobile agent is an autonomous software entity that can migrate to different physical locations and continue its execution at the point where it stopped before migration. Up to now, the majority of existing mobile agent-based applications have been created in an ad-hoc way, following little or no methodology. One reason is that current process models do not properly cover requirements and aspects of mobility in the modeling, designing and verification of such applications. We present a model for developing mobile agent-based applications that combines the standard iterative and incremental unified process with the use of mobile agent design patterns and issues that should be considered in the activities of analysis and design. Artifacts are produced using an extension of the Unified Modelling Language (UML) that copes with mobility. To illustrate the applicability of the model a case study is presented.