Re: [racket] mobile agent in racket

2011-01-05 Thread Nevo
Hi Neil and Noel Thanks so much for those valuable suggests you gave. I've been reading several old papers from ieee about "mobile agent" per se, then as you pointed out, I'd start to feed with some background on "distributed objects". And you're right, I'll also need to scout out the topic, my c

Re: [racket] mobile agent in racket

2011-01-05 Thread Noel Welsh
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Neil Van Dyke wrote: >  I suggest finding and > reading all the conference and workshop proceedings, as well as trying out > any prototypes and tools you can find. AFAIK AAMAS is the main conference, but I'm not in the field: http://www.cse.yorku.ca/AAMAS2010/ N.

Re: [racket] mobile agent in racket

2011-01-05 Thread Neil Van Dyke
If you wanted to build a new mobile agents framework for research purposes, I think that using Racket would be viable. Some relevant features that Racket gives you atop what typical Scheme dialects/derivatives do include: greater ability to limit resources, the serializable continuations work

[racket] mobile agent in racket

2011-01-04 Thread Nevo
hi, I'm new to mobile agent, but i'm interested in that and plan to continue my study on that if possible. Now I'm required to prepare a proposal related with mobile agent and I want to use racket as the implementation language, but i'm not sure if this is really applicable, so i'm asking here fo