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DEFINITION AND OVERVIEW Mobile Agent, namely, is a type of Software Agent , with the feature of ''autonomy'', ''social ability'', ''learning'', and most important, ''mobility''. When the term ''mobile agent'' is used, it refers to a Process that can transport its state from one environment to another, with its data intact, and still being able to perform appropriately in the new environment. Mobile agents decide when and where to move next, which is evolved from RPC . So how exactly does a mobile agent move? Just like a user doesn't really visit a website but only make a copy of it, a mobile agent accomplishes this move through data duplication. When a mobile agent decides to move, it Saves Its Own State and transports this saved state to next host and resume execution from the saved state. Mobile agents are a specific form of Mobile Code and Software Agent s paradigms. However, in contrast to the Remote Evaluation and Code On Demand paradigms, mobile agents are active in that they may choose to ''migrate'' between computers at any time during their execution. This makes them a powerful tool for implementing Distributed Applications in a Computer Network . ADVANTAGES Some advantages which mobile agents have over conventional agents:
APPLICATION OF MOBILE AGENTS Common applications include:
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