Mobile agents applications

Automatic, autonomous browsing has an increasingly important task in inform ation discovery and assisted browsing on the Internet. Where users could on ce keep up to dare with information of interest on the Intel net, the recur sive growth of the network has made this process increasingly time consumin g and less rewarding. Presents two possible solutions to this problem: Data Agents and CollaborAgents which were developed with IBM's Aglet Workbench - a particular implementation of mobile agents. Also surveys the agent tech nology and discusses the agent building package used to develop both mentio ned applications. Concludes that the future of local interaction, reduced n etwork loading, server flexibility and application autonomy which are suppo rted by mobile agent technology, all help to provide a level agility above distributed problem solving.