If the delta between the two timestamps ever moves out of acceptable range, the transaction processing is halted. Building upon this principle, generic logic gates can be developed that add intrinsic management and reporting values to the entire transaction path. Intelligent Agents Building upon the discoveries in the computer industry surrounding artificial intelligence, agent technology has emerged as a significant contributor to providing user-level understanding of flexible and dynamic computing environment conditions. As previous sections have clarified, an intelligent networking environment is by far a dynamic environment, and intelligent agents in the middle of the transitioning activity provide a succinct method of proactively and reactively changing the behavior of the overall system. An agent is classified by its basic behavior, instantiated by the creator.
Several classifications exist.
Mobility Either the agent and its underlying behavior is static to a particular element of a network, or it is declared as mobile, indicating that it is able to transverse individual computing elements of the network. The latter implies a series of computing elements able to service the coding specifications of the mobile agent. Clearly, Java comes to mind in the form of acceptable coding environments, as it involves platform-independent behavior. Intent Fundamentally, an agent s behavior is either deliberate or reactive. A deliberate agent tends to possess a set of actions to be performed in the form of an internal set of rules and or goals to be achieved.