@mastersthesis{sharma:thesis,
    author = {Rohit Sharma},
    title = {Mobile Agent Construction Environment},
    year = {1997},
    month = {June},
    school = {Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College},
    copyright = {Rohit Sharma},
    group = {agents},
    keyword = {mobile agents, visual programming},
    abstract = {Transportable or mobile agents are autonomous pieces of code that
can migrate from machine to machine in a heterogeneous network under their
own control and can interact with other agents, and the resources on each
host. Mobile-agent systems provide an interpreted language to write agents.
Agent Tcl is an agent system, which provides a set of commands as an
extension to Tcl. The aim of the Mobile Agent Construction Environment (MACE)
is to simplify construction of mobile agents for distributed-computing
applications like workflow-management systems. To provide program
visualization and tuning capabilities, a graphical interface is required.
MACE provides a visual language, which enables the user to provide an easily
understandable representation of the workflow. Program development is
automated by generating an Agent Tcl agent from fragments of code for
individual modules of the distributed program. For program visualization and
tuning purposes, MACE generates a log of the agent launched and animates the
graphical the graphical representation of the workflow. A critical-path
anlysis is also done for each launch.},
}