Mobile agentsStudent: Thomas Rietzler (00224952),BSc (Hons) Computing.Supervisor: Bill Buchanan.Second maker: Jim Jackson.School of Computing, Napier University.8th of May, 2002.

Project aimsTest the Tracy mobile agent system.Create an application under the Tracy environment which:Distributes dataCollects dataFilters data

Design of the application The application mainly consists in:A gateway agent that interfaces with the end-user.A gateway agent to bridge the mobile agent system to databases.2 mobiles agents, doing the same job but in a different way.

ImplementationConfiguration of Tracy.Database connection: JDBC drivers, ODBC compliant databases.SQL queries to filter data.Borland containers to store data.Development of the agents, in Java:2 gateway agents as host interfaces and data processing.2 mobile agents, with different strategies.Test of the application and performance of mobile agents created.

ConclusionsAdvantages of mobile agent technology over traditional high level networking techniques.Application distributes, collects and filters data from databases over a heterogeneous distributed system.Application could be used as an API.