SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTED COMPUTATION BASED UPON MOVEMENT, EXECUTION AND INTERACTION OF PROCESSES IN A NETWORK

摘要

A distributed computing environment in which agent processes (150A) direct their own movement through a computer network (100). Place processes (220A, 220B) provide a computing context within which agent processes (150A) are interpreted. An agent process (150A) controls its movement from one place process (220A) to another (220B) within the network (100) by using a ticket (1306). An agent process (150A) which moves from one place process (220A) to another (220B) transports definitions of classes of which objects included in the agent process (150A) are members. An agent process (150A) which moves from one place process (220A) to a second place process (220B) avoids unnecessary transportation of objects included in the agent process (150A) by substituting equivalent objects which are found in the second place process (220B).