Research on Dynamic Debugging Methods of Mobile Agent Systems on Distributed Environments

2018 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K15982
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Information network
• Research Institution: Tottori University
• Principal Investigator: HIGASHINO Masayuki 鳥取大学, 総合メディア基盤センター, 助教 (70736090)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2019-03-31
• Keywords: モバイルエージェント / 分散システム / デバッガ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

A mobile agent is an autonomous software component. A mobile agent has the advantage that can construct complex distributed systems with models similar to human society. However, there is a problem that the distributed system constructed with mobile agent technology becomes difficult to debug belongs to the scale of the distributed system increases. This project surveys the difficulty of debugging a mobile agent system and proposes a framework which guarantees that the system works correctly even if the sets of agents are split and integrated freely. The difficulty of debugging of a mobile agent system can be reduced by freely dividing and concatenating the system with observing the performance of the system.

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Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

システム開発にはデバッグは必要不可欠であり、本研究はモバイルエージェント技術の実用化に大きく貢献できる。モバイルエージェントのデバッグの困難性を軽減することで、モバイルエージェント技術に基づく分散システムのデバッグに必要な作業工数の削減が期待できる。モバイルエージェント技術を実用化に近づけることで、大規模で柔軟性が要求される分散システムをさらに高度に発展させることにも貢献が期待できる。