Evaluation of Mobile-Agent Systems
Quantitative evaluation of mobile-agent-based distributed systems is even harder:
- The absence of global time, control and state information.
- The heterogeneity/complexity of platforms: difficult to describe performance properties via small sets of metrics.
- The variety of distributed computing (software) models.
- The diversity of operations found in distributed applications: hard to construct simple and portable benchmarks.
- The flexibility of system configuration: hard to provide concise representation of system resources.
- Issues affecting performance of JAVA.