Mobile Agent System for Web Services Integration in Pervasive Networks

Fuyuki Ishikawa, Nobukazu Yoshioka, Yasuyuki Tahara, Shinichi Honiden

2004

Abstract

Web Services integration using languages such as BPEL is to be applied not only on the Internet but also in pervasive networks using wireless mobile devices. However, in such a network it is necessary to deal with constraints in resources, typically the relative narrowness and instability of network connections. Our study adopts the mobile agent technology in response to this problem and presents a mobile agent system for Web Services integration. In our system, the physical behaviors of mobile agents, including migration and cloning, are separated from the integration logic and are described as simple rules added to the BPEL integration process description. This makes it possible to add or change physical behaviors according to the environmental conditions without modification of the BPEL description.

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in Harvard Style

Ishikawa F., Yoshioka N., Tahara Y. and Honiden S. (2004). Mobile Agent System for Web Services Integration in Pervasive Networks . In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Ubiquitous Computing - Volume 1: IWUC, (ICEIS 2004) ISBN 972-8865-06-6, pages 38-47. DOI: 10.5220/0002681900380047


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iwuc04,
author={Fuyuki Ishikawa and Nobukazu Yoshioka and Yasuyuki Tahara and Shinichi Honiden},
title={Mobile Agent System for Web Services Integration in Pervasive Networks},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Ubiquitous Computing - Volume 1: IWUC, (ICEIS 2004)},
year={2004},
pages={38-47},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002681900380047},
isbn={972-8865-06-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Ubiquitous Computing - Volume 1: IWUC, (ICEIS 2004)
TI - Mobile Agent System for Web Services Integration in Pervasive Networks
SN - 972-8865-06-6
AU - Ishikawa F.
AU - Yoshioka N.
AU - Tahara Y.
AU - Honiden S.
PY - 2004
SP - 38
EP - 47
DO - 10.5220/0002681900380047