ADDRESS MANAGEMENT METHOD OF MOVING AGENT AND MOVING AGENT DEVICE

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make each moving agent cooperate and manage the latest address (identifier and an environmental name) of a moving agent which freely moves among environments on a computer network. SOLUTION: Moving agents 105 to 108 have a fixed agent which does not move for their ancestor and have an absolute path name which consists of the address of a fixed agent and a label string which tracks only labels of a parentage from the fixed agent and reaches their own moving agents the themselves. A name server function 114 manages absolute paths and addresses 118 to 120 of agents which become its own direct parent and child with a label named attached to them. When it moves between environments, a communication function 113 notifies agents which become its direct parent and child of a new address which is acquired in an environment after movement. When a communication which uses a certain address fails, an identifier and an environmental name which corresponding to the label name are successively inquired of other agents along the absolute path name of the communication object, the latest address is acquired and communication of performed again.