This research project was embark upon to discuss the design of a mobile information retrieval system. A mobile agent is an executing program that can migrate during execution from machine to machine in a heterogeneous network. On each machine, the agent interacts with stationary service agents and other resources to accomplish its task. Consequently, mobile agents are particularly attractive in distributed information retrieval applications. On behalf of a user, by migrating to the location of an information resource, the agent can search the resource locally, eliminating the transfer of intermediate results across the network and reducing end-to-end latency. By deploying the abilities of mobile information, this project discussed a system which can control and manage the distributed information retrieval processing and also how the mobile agents can migrate from a host node to various destinations, perform data processing there and send the relevant information back to the host. In order to facilitate such a set of events and actions, many development platforms are available.
TABLE OF CONTENT
Chapter One
1.0 Introduction
1.1 Aim of the Study
1.2 Objective of the Study
1.3 Methodology
Chapter two: Literature review
2.1 Computer Systems
2.1.1 Architecture
2.1.2 Component
2.2 computer Network
2.2.1 History
2.2.2 Definition of Network
2.2.3 Network Types
2.2.4 Network Protocol
2.3 Network Management
2.3.1 Management Component
2.3.2 Network Architecture
2.3.3 Network Management Architecture
2.4 Mobile Agent
2.4.1 Mobile Agent Paradigm
2.4.2 Characteristic of Mobile Agents
2.4.4 Requirement for mobile Agent Systems
2.4.5.1 Process Persistence
2.4.4.2 Common Execution Language
2.4.4.3 Communication Mechanism between Agents Hosts
2.4.4.4 Security to protect agents and dragnets hosts
2.4.4.5 Agents Programming Language
2.4.4.6 Java and Mobile Agents Design
2.4.4.7 Information Retrieval with Mobile Agent
2.4.4.8 Design Method and Tools
Chapter Three: System Analysis and Design
3.0 Introduction
3.1 Presentation of the Design
3.1.1 Receiving Agent
3.1.2 The Retrieval Agent
3.1.3 The Migrating Agent
3.2 Programming Language Used
3.2.1 Coding in Java
Chapter four: System Implementation
4.1 Implementation Approach
4.2 The Receiving Agent
4.3 The Retrieval Agent
4.4 The Migrating Agent
4.5 The Collection Agent
4.6 System setup
Chapter five: Conclusion
References
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