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| n | Applications
involving mobile agents are complex: |
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| – | All
the problems of parallel and distributed applications |
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scale, non-determinism, etc.) |
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| – | Additional
problem: where are agents? |
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| n | Visual
tools used widely in parallel and distributed |
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| programming
environments for program understanding, |
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| fault
and performance debugging, … |
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| n | Some
popular visualization tools: |
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| – | Poet |
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| – | XPVM |
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| – | Polka |
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| – | Paragraph |
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| n | All
support visualizing execution dynamics, none |
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| explicitly
shows mobility of code |
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