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Korea Information Processing Society (한국정보처리학회)
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A Supply Chain Management based on Mobile Agents with Flexible Reply Scheme

유연한 응답 기능을 가지는 이동 에이전트에 기반을 둔 공급 체인 관리

  • 정원호 (덕성여자대학교 컴퓨터과학부) ;
  • 남희정 (덕성여자대학교 대학원 전산 및 정보통신학과)
  • Published : 2001.08.01
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Abstract

Mobile agent is one of the promising ways of overcoming network load and latency. It is also a new software paradigm including those concepts of client/server, applet/servelet, and code-on-demand. In this paper, a new mobile agent concept with flexible replay scheme is proposed, which can deal with embarrassing situation when replying results should be accomplished in various distributed applications. For example, they are 1) a burden of bulky result, 2) a need of different replay scheme dependent on work type, 3) connection failure to the target node, and 4) a need of fast migration to next node to keep the itinerary. Regarding the source node, there may be another situation that it wants to be aware of whether its wi가 is completed or not. Three kinds of reply schemes are proposed for dealing flexibly with such situations. They are based on priority reply list where nodes to be replied are stored according to their priorities. An experimental supply chain management model using the proposed reply schemes is designed and implemented. It is one of good distributed applications appropriate for our reply schemes, because it requires different reply schemes according to work types and it is important to gather required information in time.

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