Agent based network computing: simplifying the development framework

The use of agents to develop network based applications is well accepted but its wide scale adoption by the mainstream IT community is yet to be achieved. It is clear that simpler and easier-to-use tools are required for agent based network computing to become mainstream. The paper considers a number of approaches that can facilitate such simplification and examines their implementation in an easy to use system called SASH that uses the high level interpretative language Python. The performance implications of using such a high level language are considered.