A distributed heterogeneous database system based on mobile agents

Abstract

This paper proposes a new model of a distributed DBMS based on the mobile agent programming paradigm instead of the client/server one. The paper investigates the suitability of the mobile agents approach to the problem of integrating a collection of local DBMS into a single heterogeneous large-scale distributed DBMS and it presents a model of distributed transactions as a set of mobile agents, illustrating the relevant execution semantics. In addition, the mechanisms which are needed to guarantee the ACID properties in the considered environment are discussed.