@techreport{grimstrup:gmas-tr,
    author = {Arne Grimstrup and Robert Gray and David Kotz and Thomas Cowin and
Greg Hill and Niranjan Suri and Daria Chac\'on and Martin Hofmann},
    title = {Write Once, Move Anywhere: Toward Dynamic Interoperability of Mobile
Agent Systems},
    year = {2001},
    month = {July},
    number = {TR2001-411},
    institution = {Dept. of Computer Science, Dartmouth College},
    copyright = {the authors},
    group = {dfk, agents, coabs, cmc},
    vitatype = {02},
    url = {http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/abstracts/TR2001-411/},
    urlpdf = {http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~dfk/papers/grimstrup:gmas-tr.pdf},
    keyword = {mobile agent, interoperability, interprocess communication},
    abstract = {Mobile agents are an increasingly popular paradigm, and in recent
years there has been a proliferation of mobile-agent systems. These systems
are, however, largely incompatible with each other. In particular, agents
cannot migrate to a host that runs a different mobile-agent system. Prior
approaches to interoperability have tried to force agents to use a common
API, and so far none have succeeded. Our goal, summarized in the catch phrase
``Write Once, Move Anywhere,'' led to our efforts to develop mechanisms that
support dynamic runtime interoperability of mobile-agent systems. This paper
describes the Grid Mobile-Agent System, which allows agents to migrate to
different mobile-agent systems.}
}