Agent systems are elegant, but it is difficult to find application of practical importance that gain from being implemented with agent technology as opposed to conventional means: the prevailing opinion is that agents are a solution in search of a problem. In this short paper we state our definition of agents, briefly describe the Aglet agent system, and give details of an application that we believe is of practical importance and is more easily implemented with agent technology than other techniques: we introduce an agent that roams a network of arbitrary topology and configures a multicast network equivalent to the minimum spanning tree between the sender and the receivers
By: S.G. Hild and J.H. Bischof
Published in: RZ2975 in 1998
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