Some advantages which mobile agents have over conventional agents:
- Computation bundles - converts computational client/server round trips to relocatable data bundles, reducing network load.
- Parallel processing -asynchronous execution on multiple heterogeneous network hosts
- Dynamic adaptation - actions are dependent on the state of the host environment
- Tolerant to network faults - able to operate without an active connection between client and server
- Flexible maintenance - to change an agent's actions, only the source (rather than the computation hosts) must be updated
One particular advantage for remote deployment of software includes increased portability thereby making system requirements less influential.
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