Saving time and reducing network traffic with a graphical mobile agent inception system

Abstract

The agent paradigm, in which autonomous software programs perform tedious, repetitive, or timesaving operations on behalf of the human user, is widely seen as a potentially useful alternative. This is especially true in Internet computing where desired information is often combined from distributed resources. Furthermore, the use of mobile agents in our prototype is both easy and practical because we provide a novel graphical agent inception system and mobile agents who send back only the data that matters most to the user.