MOVING AGENT, OBJECT STORED IN MOVING AGENT, METHOD FOR GENERATING SLAVE AGENT BASED ON MOVING AGENT EXISTING IN PLACE ON NETWORK, METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING KIND OF ANOTHER MOVING AGENT IN PLACE WHERE MOVING AGENT EXIST

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To allow each moving agent to identify its ancestor, child, groundchild, brother, etc., on the way of movement and execute work while cooperating with these components by integrating genetic information into the moving agent while maintaining high security. ;SOLUTION: The moving agent 200 is provided with ancestor's genetic information and self-genetic information. The self-genetic information is ciphered information indicating which generation is the agent 200 from an original agent. In the case of preparing a clone (slave agent 250), the agent 200 prepares the (self-generation + 1) th genetic information and pads the prepared information in the slave agent 250. When the agent 200 moving on a network meets with another moving agent 230 on the same place, the agent 200 acquires the genetic information of the agent 230. After the execution of fixed conversion, that these agents 200, 230 were borne from the same ancestor is confirmed.;COPYRIGHT: (C)1999,JPO