an autonomous, self-contained CORBA object that carries its code and state plus an itinerary across an IIOP network
a program that acts on behalf of a user and is capable of moving autonomously within the network
a program that can migrate from host to host in a network of heterogeneous computer systems and fulfil a task specified by its owner
a program that can migrate under its own control
a program that is able to migrate from host to host on a network under its own control
a program that migrates under its own control from machine to machine in a heterogeneous network
a program with a persistent identity which moves around a network and can commu
a running program that can migrate from host to host at times and to places of its own choosing
a software module that migrates sequentially through a set of nodes, remain stationary and interact with resources remotely or perform any combination of these three extremes for reservation of resources
In computer science, a mobile agent is a composition of computer software and data which is able to migrate (move) from one computer to another autonomously and continue its execution on the destination computer.