BibTeX for papers by David Kotz; for complete/updated list see https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~kotz/research/papers.html @InProceedings{gray:scalability, author = {Robert S. Gray and David Kotz and Ronald A. Peterson and Joyce Barton and Daria Chac{\"{o}}n and Peter Gerken and Martin Hofmann and Jeffrey Bradshaw and Maggie Breedy and Renia Jeffers and Niranjan Suri}, title = {{Mobile-Agent versus Client/Server Performance: Scalability in an Information-Retrieval Task}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Mobile Agents}}, series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science}, year = 2001, month = {December}, volume = 2240, pages = {229--243}, publisher = {Springer-Verlag}, copyright = {Springer-Verlag}, address = {Atlanta, Georgia}, DOI = {10.1007/3-540-45647-3_16}, URL = {https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~kotz/research/gray-scalability/index.html}, note = {A corrected version of this paper is available on the Dartmouth web site.}, abstract = {Building applications with mobile agents often reduces the bandwidth required for the application, and improves performance. The cost is increased server workload. There are, however, few studies of the scalability of mobile-agent systems. We present scalability experiments that compare four mobile-agent platforms with a traditional client/server approach. The four mobile-agent platforms have similar behavior, but their absolute performance varies with underlying implementation choices. Our experiments demonstrate the complex interaction between environmental, application, and system parameters.}, }