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Mobile Objects and Mobile Agents: The Future of Distributed Computing?: This paper will lead you into the world of mobile agents, an emerging technology that makes it very much easier to design, implement, and maintain distributed systems. You will find that mobile agents reduce the network traffic, provide an effective means of overcoming network latency, and perhaps most importantly, through their ability to operate asynchronously and autonomously of the process that created them, helps you to construct more robust and fault-tolerant. Read on and let us introduce you to software agents - the mobile as well as the stationary ones. We will explain all the benefits of mobile agents and demonstrate the impact they have on the design of distributed systems before concluding this paper with a brief overview of some contemporary mobile agent systems.

Invensys Case Study: Invensys is a world leader in industrial process automation. With many control system vendor products based on proprietary hardware and software, Invensys needed a solution that made it possible to develop an industry-wide, vendor-neutral solution to Control Systems Management, scalable to the complexity of any given system. Using the advanced features of Voyager and Voyager Messaging, Invensys implemented the Refinery Off-Sites Solutions Suite, the first of a generation of standards-based, open industrial systems designed to meet the total measurement, control, and real-time information requirements of their customers.