Mobile Agents in Reusable Software Component Retrieval

Abstract

Software is becoming part of almost every operation of the modern world. Competition is becoming both intense and more widespread as more and more organizations depend on mission-critical business information systems to manage customer interactions, speed goods to their destinations, and manage finances in an ever more complex, global business environment. Often companies compete on small differences in quickly introduced, innovative services. Improving business performance often means they must dramatically improve their software development performance. Building software systems from previously developed, high-quality components certainly saves the cost and time of redundant work and improves systems. Dedicated centralized search engines, such as Yahoo or Google, carry out currently all searching on the Internet and large networks. Developing such systems tends to be extremely expensive in terms of hardware, bandwidth requirements, and also the specialized algorithms and software that are necessary. Most Internet search engines maintain a very large centralized database, which is updated by crawling the Internet and indexing websites. When a query is received the database replies with a list of websites that are deemed to be in some way related to the original query.