LIP6 1997/010

• Reports «Agents Logiciel : Quel est le coût de la distribution ?»
• M. Girard-Faugère
• 26 pages - 07/25/1997 - document en - http://www.lip6.fr/lip6/reports/1997/lip6.1997.010.ps.gz 124 Ko
• Contact Madeleine.Girard (at) nulllip6.fr
• Ancien Thème : OASIS
Based on the lessons on a software implementation called ADAM, that is presented in this paper, we address the question of the title by : EXPENSIVE ! Starting from two scenarios, we first try to characterize the costs of a distributed approach versus a centralized approach for the program supervision in a distributed environment. Then we describe ADAM's technical realization, and conclude on a discussion pointing out the granularity problems in the (Software) Agent concept.