@INPROCEEDINGS{GS:asama2000,
  title = "Fault-Tolerant Mobile Agents in {Mozart}",
  year = {2000},
  author = {Ili\`{e}s Alouini and Peter Van Roy},
  abstract = {In any wide-area distributed system such as the Internet, fault tolerance is crucial for real-world applications.  We describe a new
 practical fault-tolerant mobile agent platform. The agent platform is built
 on the top of the Mozart system using a ``global store'' abstraction
 that provides a globally coherent and fault tolerant memory. The global
 store looks like a set of objects which are accessed using a transactional 
 interface.  Instances of the global store are used for two purposes:
 to store the agent state and to communicate with the agent. The store is 
 lightweight, requires no persistence, and is independent of the file system.  
 Processes can be added to or removed from the store dynamically.  With $n$ 
 processes, the store tolerates up to $n-1$ fail-stop process failures.
 This is adequate for fault tolerance on a LAN; we are working on extending
 the store for network partitioning, so that it will be adequate also on the
 complete Internet.  The store can migrate without dependencies, i.e., the
 migration depends on no fixed process.  Mozart is a general-purpose 
 development
 platform for open, robust distributed applications that is based on the Oz
 language.  A beta version of the global store is implemented completely
 within Oz using Mozart's reflective fault model.  The beta version has been
 publicly released in the Mozart Global User Library.},
  booktitle = "2nd International Symposium on Agent Systems and Applications (ASA2000) and 4th International Symposium on
 Mobile Agents (MA2000)",
  month = sep,
  note = "Poster presented at the conference.",
  address = "Zurich, Switzerland",
  sline = {1175},
  label = {asama2000}
}