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NOMADS is a Java-based agent system that supports strong mobility (i.e., the ability to capture and transfer the full execution state of migrating agents) and safe agent execution (i.e., the ability to control resources consumed by agents, facilitating guarantees of quality of service while protecting against denial of service attacks). The NOMADS environment is composed of two parts: an agent execution environment called Oasis and a new Java-compatible Virtual Machine (VM) called Aroma. The combination of Oasis and the Aroma VM provides key enhancements over today’s Java agent environments.
This research is supported in part by DARPA.s Control of Agent-Based Systems (CoABS) program (Contract F30602-98-C-0170), the NASA Aviation Extranet JSRA (Contract NCA2-2005), and the National Technology Alliance (NTA).
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Suri, N., Bradshaw, J.M., Breedy, M.R., Groth, P.T., Hill, G.A., Jeffers, R. (2000). Strong Mobility and Fine-Grained Resource Control in NOMADS. In: Kotz, D., Mattern, F. (eds) Agent Systems, Mobile Agents, and Applications. ASA MA 2000 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1882. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45347-5_2
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