Mobile agents (Computer software) (Topical Term)

Work cat.: 98-20525: Lange, D.B. Programming and deploying mobile agents ... 1998: CIP galley (Mobile agents have the unique ability to transport themselves from one system in a network to another. The ability to travel allows mobile agents to move to a system that contains services with which they want to interact, and then to take advantage of being in the same host or network as the service ... mobile agents reduce network traffic, provide an effective means of overcoming network latency, and most importantly, through their ability to operate asynchronously and autonomously of the process that created them, help to construct more robust and fault-tolerant systems) p. 6 (mobile Internet agents)

PC Webopaedia (Knowbot programming: system support for mobile agents)