Task assignment and management based on CORBA and mobile agent

On the basis of information technology, cooperative working modes are developing rapidly to optimally configure of environment, technology and various resources of engineering design. So, the designers can breakthrough the restriction material to implement product-oriented design. However, due to the financial and the human limitation, most resources distributed in the engineering design system are unbalanced. To optimize the resources of hardware, software, information and human, one of the most difficulties is the assignment of design task in the working process. In this paper, mobile Agent is used to reconcile resource collision and assign tasks in the dynamic process. The data transmitted on Internet will be reduced efficiently and network bandwidth will be economized. Meanwhile, masking the low-level details of heterogeneous environments, the CORBA technology is used to solve the problem of heterogeneity, Therefore, the Agent can move smoothly in various operating systems.