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Remote Configuration of Agent-Based Component Systems
R. Weinreich, R. Plösch
The nearly omnipresence of the Internet and the steady increase of wireless computing
and mobile devices require highly dynamic adaptable distributed system architectures.
Building such architectures needs a combination of key concepts from component
technology and distributed systems. Mobile agents provide this combination. We use
mobile agents as the building blocks of a component-based system for remote
supervision and control of both hard- and software in a distributed environment. In this
paper we concentrate on the configuration of individual components and component
relationships in our system. We identify requirements for remote configuration of agentbased
component systems and discuss architectural and user interface related issues
of our approaches. We use a code-on-demand approach for supporting elaborate user
interfaces. We use a generative approach based on enhanced meta-information for
reducing development effort. The presented approaches are applicable for remote
configuration of component-based systems in general and consider additional
requirements imposed through the use of mobile agent technology.
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R. Weinreich, R. Plösch, Remote Configuration of Agent-Based Component Systems, Journal of Object Technology (JOT), November/December, Vol. 2, No. 6, December 2003
TR-SE-03.05
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