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Agents, and in particular mobile agents, offer a means for application developers to build distributed applications. In current agent systems, mobility of agents is constrained by the environment of the agents: the agent platform (which supports agents) and the agent’s code base (eg, DESIRE, Java). Generative migration is needed to adapt an agent to conform to its destination agent platform and code base. In this paper generative migration is described as a process of “transparently adapting” an agent. An agent can continue to function at its new location on a completely different agent platform.