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to the mobility level (which is part of the programmer’s view) and it is the
task of the agent manager to map requirements of the mobility level to the
preferences of Kalong as described in the following sections.
6.2 Kalong Vocabulary
Kalong uses the following terms:
Agent An agent is a mobile agent as defined in this book. We will often use
the term agent instance to denote a single agent object in contrast to the
set of all agents of the same type, or the agent’s type.
Agency An agency is software that is necessary to execute and migrate mobile
agents on a computer system. We distinguish between the sender agency,
which starts a transfer, and the receiver agency, to which the transfer is
directed. ...