Non-Agents
- Servers - E.g., web, email, agent names
One Request / One Response
Executes on single machine - Multi-servers - E.g., web-crawlers
- Java Applets
Code served upon user request
Just a program of some kind - Cellular Automata -
E.g., Internet routers,
software ants
Distributed
Emergent behavior via protocol
homogenous
"Agents"
- Mobile Agents
Program computes IP destination
Code is pushed rather than served
State persists - Typed-Message Agents
Typed messages (KQML, FIPA ACL) exchanged
Client-server protocol insufficient
IP address may or may not move
State persists
