Comparison of Mobile Agent Frameworks for Distributed Geospatial Data Integration

Rapid growth of available geospatial data requires a development of system capable of autonomous data retrieval, integration and validation. Since agent technology may provide the suitable framework for developing such a system (as it can deal in a natural way with the distributed heterogeneous nature of the data) a problem of selection of the most appropriate agent environment needs to be addressed. In this paper, four mobile agent systems (Aglets, Concordia, Grasshopper, Voyager) are compared from the perspective of their suitability for this project.