Plangent as a mobile agent system By moving from one computer to another intelligently, Plangent agents avoid placing excess load on the network and prevent excessive concentration of work on one computer. Plangent agents also can move from mobile PCs, which connect to the network from time to time, to computers that are on the network at all times and return to the mobile PCs when Plangent agents achieve their goals. If the agent fails to perform its task, the agent searches for another way to achieve its goal by replanning. The Plangent system has the knowledge bases that are required for planning in each node. The agents also have their own knowledge bases.
Actions are declarative descriptions of fragments of the plan to achieve the specified goal.
Plangent agents generate plans by selecting appropriate actions corresponding to the goal and the situation. Making Plangent perform new tasks Agents can be assigned to perform new tasks by defining new actions in each node and agent. The procedure below should be followed. In order to distribute agents widely in networks and allow them to play an important role, many problems, from the level of communication protocols to that of conversations between agents in specific contexts, must be overcome. In the same way, there are various levels of expectations regarding the usefulness of agent technology from routine business to larger-scale problem solving.