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by Wong, Wan-Lung. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 88-92). / Abstract also in Chinese. / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Mobile Agent Systems --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- Distributed Control Systems --- p.2 / Chapter 1.3 --- Motivation of the Dissertation --- p.3 / Chapter 1.4 --- Related Work --- p.3 / Chapter 1.5 --- Overview of the Dissertation --- p.5 / Chapter 2 --- Mobile Agents --- p.6 / Chapter 2.1 --- Definition of an Agent --- p.7 / Chapter 2.1.1 --- A Weak Notion of Agents --- p.8 / Chapter 2.1.2 --- A Stronger Notion of Agents --- p.9 / Chapter 2.1.3 --- Other Attributes of Agents --- p.9 / Chapter 2.2 --- Characteristics of Mobile Agents --- p.10 / Chapter 2.3 --- Programming Languages for Mobile Agents --- p.11 / Chapter 3 --- A Mobile Agent Framework --- p.16 / Chapter 3.1 --- The Framework --- p.16 / Chapter 3.1.1 --- Agent Operations --- p.19 / Chapter 3.1.2 --- Agent Life Cycle --- p.23 / Chapter 3.1.3 --- Agent Migration Server --- p.26 / Chapter 3.1.4 --- Communication Server --- p.28 / Chapter 3.1.5 --- Facilitator --- p.30 / Chapter 3.2 --- April as a Mobile Agent Language --- p.30 / Chapter 4 --- An Agent Based Distributed Train Control and Monitoring Sys- tem --- p.32 / Chapter 4.1 --- Introduction to DiTCAMS --- p.33 / Chapter 4.2 --- Terminology in DiTCAMS --- p.34 / Chapter 4.3 --- Architecture of DiTCAMS --- p.34 / Chapter 4.3.1 --- Active Agents --- p.36 / Chapter 4.3.2 --- Passive Agents --- p.38 / Chapter 4.4 --- Agent Collaborations --- p.41 / Chapter 4.4.1 --- Track Resource Allocation --- p.41 / Chapter 4.4.2 --- Sensor Triggering --- p.42 / Chapter 4.4.3 --- Hardware Control --- p.42 / Chapter 4.4.4 --- Train Migration --- p.42 / Chapter 4.5 --- Other Implementation Issues --- p.46 / Chapter 4.5.1 --- Track Resource Management --- p.47 / Chapter 4.5.2 --- Railway Topology Encoding --- p.50 / Chapter 4.5.3 --- Train Location Determination --- p.54 / Chapter 4.5.4 --- Train Speed Control --- p.62 / Chapter 4.5.5 --- Collision Prevention and Recovery --- p.64 / Chapter 4.5.6 --- Improving Efficiency of April for Real-time Execution --- p.65 / Chapter 5 --- Discussions --- p.72 / Chapter 5.1 --- On Enabling Mobile Agents --- p.72 / Chapter 5.2 --- Cost in Achieving Mobile Agents --- p.74 / Chapter 5.3 --- On Using April as a Mobile Agent Language --- p.75 / Chapter 5.4 --- History of DiTCAMS --- p.76 / Chapter 6 --- Concluding Remarks --- p.79 / Chapter 6.1 --- Contributions --- p.79 / Chapter 6.2 --- Limitations --- p.80 / Chapter 6.3 --- Future Work --- p.81 / Chapter A --- Hardware Components --- p.83 / Chapter B --- A Concurrent Administrator Based Train System Using C --- p.85 / Bibliography --- p.88

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