Thomas Kunz
Systems and Computer Engineering
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Motivation and Related Work
nApplications involving mobile agents are complex:
–All the
problems of parallel and distributed applications (concurrency, scale, non-determinism, etc.)
–Additional
problem: where are agents?
nVisual tools used widely in parallel and distributed programming environments for program understanding, fault and performance debugging, …
nSome popular visualization tools:
–Poet
–XPVM
–Polka
–Paragraph
nAll support visualizing execution dynamics, none explicitly shows mobility of code