Mobile Agent Technology And Its Application

With the development of Internet and rapidly growing information in public networks, a distributed information system is required to established to organize information in distributed environment and provides users with a integrated, accurate and in-time information service.However, this kind of information system is not easy to establish. Traditional theories and schemes are hard to produce satisfying result. The author of this paper has the opinion that Mobile Agent technology, which combines Software Agent and Mobile Code technology, is the right means to achieve the goal of efficient distributed information management and sharing, due to its autonomousness, adaptiveness, mobility, coolaborativeness, goal-oriented feature.This paper is called forth by the need of organization and sharing of the education information in remote learning systems, drived by the combination of mobile code technology and software agent technology, and aims to explore a novel way to deal with the management and sharing of distributed information. In information retrieval, the system based on mobile agents aims to satisfy the users' desire for information; gather related information; discover information resources; dig users' further information requirements. Information management and sharing in this system are achieved by coolaboration of various agents in this system. Also, this paper discusses the design and implementation of a distance learning information system based on mobile agent technology. In this system, advantages of mobile agent technology are explored and exploited in both of the following two aspects: distributed information organization and distributed information retrieval.