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Task migration of JADE agents on Android platform

Multi-agent systems (MAS) are a software development paradigm suitable for dynamic and complex application domains. A noteworthy feature of many agent systems is the ability of agent migration. Agent migration procedure consists of two distinct steps ; code migration and agent state migration. Migration of agent’s state is a simple process of serializing agent’s state and de-serializing it at destination. Migration of code is a more complex issue, due to heterogeneous nature of operating systems which can host agent platforms. A common approach is to implement an agent system in on a platform which is agnostic to the operating system and hardware. A popular language and a platform for such task is Java, which is also the language of choice for the Android platform. Unfortunately byte-codes of Java virtual machine (JVM) and Android Dalvik virtual machine are not interchangeable. This fact complicates code migration between machines running JVM and Dalvik.

agent; task migration; class-loading; JADE; JADELEAP; FIPA; ACL; agent behaviours; JVM; Dalvik; Dex; ondemand code conversion; IPMS

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