Authors:
Gilles Klein
1
;
Alexandru Suna
2
and
Amal El Fallah-Seghrouchni
2
Affiliations:
1
LAMSADE - University of Paris IX, France
;
2
LIP6 - University of Paris VI, France
Keyword(s):
Mobile Agents, Agents for Internet Computing, Load Balancing and Sharing, Agent-Oriented Programming.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Agent-Oriented Programming
;
Agents
;
Artificial Intelligence
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Software Agents and Internet Computing
Abstract:
From the recent improvements in network and peer-to-peer technologies and the ever-growing needs for computer might, new ways of sharing resources between users have emerged. These methods are very diverse, from SETI@HOME which is a way to share the load of analysing the data from space in order to find traces of extraterrestrial life, to NAPSTER and its successors, and to Real-time video-games. However, these technologies allow only centralised calculus-sharing, even if they already offer ”peer-to-peer” sharing of data. We present in this paper a method based on Multiagent systems which allow load-sharing between distant users.