Mobile Agent-Based Software Systems Modeling Approaches: A Comparative Study

Mobile agent-based applications are special type of software systems which take the advantages of mobile agents in order to provide a new beneficial paradigm to solve multiple complex problems in several fields and areas such as network management, e-commerce, e-learning, etc. Likewise, we notice lack of real applications based on this paradigm and lack of serious evaluations of their modeling approaches. Hence, this paper provides a comparative study of modeling approaches of mobile agent-based software systems. The objective is to give the reader an overview and a thorough understanding of the work that has been done and where the gaps in the research are. ACM CCS (2012) Classification : Computing methodologies → Artificial intelligence → Distributed artificial intelligence → Mobile agents *To cite this article: A. Belghiat et al ., "Mobile Agent-Based Software Systems Modeling Approaches: A Comparative Study", CIT. Journal of Computing and Information Technology , vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 149–163, 2016.