MULTI-AGENT APPLICATIONS DESIGN SUPPORT

Nowadays distributed applications have to fulfill challenging criterions in respect of flexible utilization. Availability of different network services should be spread through a number of mobile devices like PDAs and mobile phones. For such a context the design and implementation of distributed applications grew over classical client-server architecture. In this paper the utilization of the mobile agent paradigm for solving these kinds of problems is described. In this paper we start with a brief description of the ESMA system for support of mobile agent based applications designed and implemented at the Department of Computers and Informatics, TU of Košice. Then we continue with the methodology for design and implementation of mobile agent based applications based on this system. Finally, the multi-agent dimension of new solution is emphasized and illustrated on a simple example of on-line registration system