WORLD WIDE WEB DATABASE INTEGRATION VIA MOBILE AGENTS
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2002-12-06
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This paper presents an architecture that makes use of dynamic
deployment of mobile agents to support both integration of
heterogeneous/homogeneous databases on the World Wide Web (or web) and data
exchange between the architecture and existing applications. The system uses
an integrated and global schema to utilize agents in remote locations and
HyperText Markup Language (HTML - usable even with minimal bandwidth) as the
client interface and to control agents behind the scene. Using HTML reduces
overhead and therefore gives the architecture performance advantages over other
existing mobile agent systems. Furthermore, the system also supports the
addition and removal of component databases dynamically. The exchange
language used by the system is XML (eXtensible Markup Language), a standard and
extensible format with supports in almost all programming languages, which can
be read and understood by almost any application. With rich document
structures like XML, not only can data transported by the Agents be used over
the web, but it can also be used for Business To Business (B2B) data exchange
between existing and/or future applications. The proposed system is shown to
be better than existing techniques when higher volumes of data are to be
exchanged such as is typical B2B applications. The improvements are
consistently significant and are magnified substantially as the amount of data
exchanged increases.
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