Mobile Agents [Paperback]

William R. Cockayne (Author), Michael Zyda (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 15, 1998

A guide to creating and using Internet agent technologies, this book provides insights into every major agent system, including Telescript, Agent Tcl, Ara and Java-based Aglets. It clearly defines and explains agent technology, terminology and concepts. It offers a complete overview of essential agent concepts and terminology, with agent development environments and sample agents on CD-ROM. The book describes the state-of-the art in Internet agents, and the likely future of agent technology.

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Agent technology will give Internet users electronic personal assistants that can act on their behalf, retrieving information, making purchases and performing many other tasks. This poorly understood technology portends a revolution in the way millions of users interact with the Internet. This book is the most complete guide for understanding, building and using agents with each of today's most important agent development environments.Clearly defines and explains agent technology, terminology and concepts. Describes the state-of-the-art in Internet agents, and the likely future of agent technology. Covers each major agent development platform in depth, including Telescript, Agent Tcl, ARA and the Aglets workbench. Start-up kits for each of these platforms are included on CD-ROM, along with sample agent applications.All potential developers and users of Internet-based agent technology, including Webmasters, programmers, students, and managers looking for new technologies that can deliver competitive advantage.

Product Details

• Paperback: 312 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR (January 15, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0138582424
• ISBN-13: 978-0138582425
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,049,434 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful tutorial text!, January 4, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Mobile Agents (Paperback)

Mobile Agents by Cockayne and Zyda is the first book to provide tutorial coverage of the world of mobile agents. Mobile agents are programs that go out across the network and act on your desires for purchasing, travel or whatever you desire. The book has a nice, introductory overview for those not full up to speed on mobile agents and is targeted for that audience. It is well written and concise. It discusses in detail three complete agent systems: Agents for remote access (Ara), Agent Tcl, and Telescript. In addition, it discusses Aglets workbench, a Java-based agent system. There are some newer agent systems that should have perhaps been included in the text and they may be included in a second edition. The CD provided with the text provides development environments for agent systems and is an excellent resource for those just starting out in agents. This is a major contribution and the authors are to be congratulated!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A truly outstanding introductory text!, December 27, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Mobile Agents (Paperback)

I teach a course on mobile agents with this text and find it quite nice. There is no other book that I know of that provides the basics, along with real working systems. The books does not kill us with the latest, incomprehensible research but rather works from the ground up. It is a not to be missed text if you are attempting to teach the basics of mobile agents!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Agent Domain Clearly Covered, January 9, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Mobile Agents (Paperback)

This book gives good insight into the agent domain and good coverage of ongoing interesting projects regarding mobile agents. This book also provides a good overview of Aglets workbench, Agent Tcl, and Telescript. This book is very good if you want to know about intelligent agent technology and some of the implementation details.