| Evaluating Performance on Mobile Agents Software Design (2007) | |||||||||||||||||
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| Abstract. Software design and implementation using mobile agents are nowadays involved in a scepticism halo. There exist researchers who question its utility because it could be a new technology which no new skills but could introduce new problems. Security and performance are the most critical aspects for this new kind of software. In this contribution we present a formal approach to analyze performance for this class of systems. Our approach is integrated in the early stages of the software development process. In this way, it is possible to predict expected behaviour without the necessity of carry out the complete implementation phase. To show the approach, we model a software retrieval service system in a pragmatic way, after the corresponding formal model is obtained and analyzed in order to study performance. | |||||||||||||||||
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