[racket] mobile agent in racket

Hi Neil and Noel
  Thanks so much for those valuable suggests you gave. I've been reading
several old papers from ieee about "mobile agent" per se, then as you
pointed out, I'd start to feed with some background on "distributed
objects". And you're right, I'll also need to scout out the topic, my
current idea in mind is apply mobile agent technology within mobile
computing, about which I've been able to find a couple of papers
fortunately, then hopefully I could get a right advisor :)
  Now I feel pretty sure I will use Racket as the language for my future
research work for the sake of what you've mentioned here (I've already
tasted the sweet provided by Racket web server :) ), the only concern I have
is the portability (gc, jit, ffi, gui, in particular), but I'll figure them
out by myself anyway.
  Thanks again for all your words :)

Nevo


On 5 January 2011 16:17, Neil Van Dyke <neil at neilvandyke.org> wrote:

>  If you wanted to build a new mobile agents framework for research
> purposes, I think that using Racket would be viable.
>
> Some relevant features that Racket gives you atop what typical Scheme
> dialects/derivatives do include: greater ability to limit resources, the
> serializable continuations work for the Racket Web Server, good support for
> defining and mixing languages (or constructing eval environments, if you
> like).
>
> Also, if you are doing your academic research on a small niche like mobile
> agents, you will especially want to get connected with the right research
> circle.  Over ten years ago (when I last kept up with the topic), the mobile
> agents community was small, and there was a private email list shared among
> key researchers, but the email list seems to have moved ("mobility" pun) or
> disappeared.  I don't know whether work on this topic is still active, or
> whether the topic has morphed into something else.  I suggest finding and
> reading all the conference and workshop proceedings, as well as trying out
> any prototypes and tools you can find.  After you've ingested all you can
> find, you might try contacting a couple of the people whose work most
> interests you, to express your interest and ask for advice on how to
> proceed.
>
> In addition to the topic of "mobile agents", also spend some time getting
> background on "distributed objects", if you have not done so already.
>
> Oh, before you do too much more reading and playing with software, perhaps
> you should write down your perspective on mobile agents and why it interests
> you, as notes to yourself.  Then you can refer back to those notes after
> being overwhelmed with other people's perspectives, so that you don't forget
> ideas that others might have missed or failed to follow through on.  (It is
> not uncommon for lots of people to have similar grand visions of a research
> topic, and for there to be lots of hype on a topic for a while, but then the
> hype dies down, and those people graduate and/or switch to new topics before
> they've achieved the grand vision for the previous topic.  That doesn't mean
> the previous topic is uninteresting or insoluble, nor that the dominant
> approaches during the hype were the best ones.)
>
> Also, once you've scouted out the topic, be sure to get an academic
> research advisor, if you don't already have one.  Besides topical and
> general research direction, s/he can advise you about funding.
>
> Good luck.
>
>
> Nevo wrote at 01/05/2011 02:04 AM:
>
> hi,
>   I'm new to mobile agent, but i'm interested in that and plan to continue
> my study on that if possible. Now I'm required to prepare a proposal related
> with mobile agent and I want to use racket as the implementation language,
> but i'm not sure if this is really applicable, so i'm asking here for some
> suggest.
>   As the background reading, I've been briefly read papers "Scheme
> implementation of the functional language for mobile agents with dynamic
> extension <http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1555148>"
> and "Language Support for Mobile Agents,<http://www.cs.virginia.edu/%7Eknabe/dissertation.ps.gz>".
> Both implementation are based on functional programming language, so I feel
> it should be feasible in Racket as well. After further searching, it seems
> IBM's "Aglets <http://www.trl.ibm.com/aglets/>" is the most popular
> implementation, in Java, and Python also has a prototyping framework MAF<http://maf.sourceforge.net/> which
> supports "foreign agent", and  Pyrover<https://www.taupro.com/ss/pyrover.html> which
> I cannot open the link for (just read the cached page). I'm wondering is
> there any similar framework or implementation in scheme or racket I can
> reference from ? Thanks!
>
>  Nevo
>
>
>
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