傳統的schedule system運作的環境有兩項最基本的定義,
首先,是static search space;其次是static schedule graph。但是隨著網路技術的進步與分散式處理的成熟,
自然發展出所謂的remote computing架構,在分散式資料庫環境下,大量的資訊存放在網路上不同的主機當中,上述兩項定義便顯得不合理,因此如何讓scheduler能夠有效利用這些分散的資料是本篇論文要解決的問題。
在這一篇論文當中,將提出一種全新的機制來解決傳統的schedule system所無法解決的問題,因此,本篇論文所提出的schedule system具備下列四項特色,首先,是dynamic search space;其次,是dynamic schedule graph;再其次,減少cpu等待的時間;最後,避免overload情況發生。
除此之外,在眾多的schedule system當中,我們再將研究的範圍縮小至利用java-based mobile agent代替使用者在分散式環境下進行空間上的排程工作,而非一般只考慮時間這個單一維度的排程工作。這個機制最大的好處是讓具有intelligent特性的mobile agent自動蒐集各種資訊且動態地找出最佳的schedule result,同時,針對具有可攜帶性或者任何形式的的用戶端皆具有高度的適應性,對於計算能力較差或者網路資源缺乏的用戶端依舊能夠提供高度的運作成效。

Traditional schedule systems work with two de nitions. The First one is static search
space, and the second one is static schedule graph. With the incremental popular of
distributed computing, people develop the remote computing architecture. Because of
a distributed environment, A large number of data distributed in di erent machines on
the internet. The two de nitions above-mentioned seems to be unreasonable. Thus,
the problem we want to solve is to develop a scheduler which is suitable for distributed
environment.
In this paper, we develop a new mechanism to solve the problem. Our schedule
system provides four function. First, is suitable for dynamic search space. Second,
is suitable for dynamic schedule graph. Third, reduce the idle time of CPU. Forth,
avoid system overload. Besides, we minimize our problem to using java-based mobile
agent to provide scheduling service in a distributed environment. The most impor-
tant advantage of this mechanism is, It dispatches intelligent mobile agent search for
requirement data automatically. Then computes all schedule results. The other ad-
vantage of this mechanism is highly capabilities for any portable device, it still provide
clients which lack computing resource and bandwidth for best performance.

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