%0 Journal Article
%T Mobile agents for distributed decision support systems
%A Blaz Rodi£¿
%J International Scientific Journal of Management Information Systems
%D 2011
%I University of Novi Sad
%X This article focuses on the performance of Java based mobile agents using format translation via an intermediary XML based format. Our goal was to develop and verify the performance of a lightweight, mobile agent based solution that would allow strong security, portability and access to heterogeneous data resources from a mobile platform to facilitate exchange of data between simulation models and data resources. We have developed two types of agents: a mobile agent that functions as a server for queries in SQL and converts the query results into XML documents and a stationary agent acting as a client for query forwarding and conversion of received documents into text files readable by a client application. We have tested the performance of the agents in a distributed simulation scenario and established that the agents can be used to connect heterogeneous simulation models and other applications, improving their connectivity and usability.
%K Mobile agents
%K XML
%K data filtering
%K data retrieval
%K distributed simulation
%K decision support systems
%U http://www.ef.uns.ac.rs/mis/archive-pdf/2011%20-%20No1/MIS2011_1_4.pdf