A Scripting Language for Mobile Agent Applications

Seng Loke
Computer Science, RMIT

Friday, 26th October 2001
0930 - 1100

RMIT University Function Room (near Kaleide Theatre)
Building 8, level 2, RMIT
Swanston Street, Melbourne.

Abstract:

Mobile agents can be useful in certain distributed applications. This talk will discuss a lightweight high-level scripting language that allows mobile agent applications to be constructed by programming the movements of the agent (i.e., where the agent is to do which task), without the clutter of the syntax of a full programming language and abstracting away task details. The language effectively glues together pre-built components that implement tasks.

Biosketch:

Seng Loke is currently on academic staff in the School of CS & IT at RMIT. Previously, he worked in the Distributed Systems Technology Center (DSTC) on projects involving mobile computing and agent-based distributed computing. His PhD thesis created a model integrating logic programming and the World Wide Web.