Cybenko, Dartmouth College Networking sensing Most current computer applications are insensitive to changing network conditions. With the growing demand for wireless. Network-robust applications are of great interest in military situations today, and we expect that interest to grow in industrial and eventually consumer environments as well. Mobile agents are one way to realize such applications, especially when used in a wireless environment. Mobile agents have received much attention recently as a way to efficiently access distributed resources in a low bandwidth network.
Planning allows mobile agents to make the best use of the available resources.
This thesis studies several planning problems that arise in mobile agent information retrieval and data-mining applications. We are given sites at which a certain task might be successfully performed. Each site has an independent probability of success associated with it. Latencies between sites, that is, the travel time between those two sites also have to be taken into account. If the task is successfully completed at a site then the remaining sites need not be visited.