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Agents as Catalysts for Mobile Computing

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Agent-Oriented Information Systems II (AOIS 2004)

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Abstract

Agent-Oriented Programming (AOP) offers an alternative and radical approach to the development of information systems in various domains. However, one domain that AOP has only minimally affected, at least up until now, is that of mobile computing. Until recently, the use of strong intentional agents in such a domain has been considered impractical and, indeed, computationally intractable. In this paper, Agent Factory, a system for the fabrication of strong intelligent agents, is reviewed in the light of agent deployment on mobile devices. As an illustration of the potential of agents in mobile applications, two archetypical mobile computing applications, realised through Agent Factory, are described.

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  1. Adaptive Information Cluster (AIC), Department of Computer Science, University College Dublin (UCD), Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland

    G. M. P. O’Hare

  2. Practice & Research in Intelligent Systems & Media (PRISM) Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, University College Dublin (UCD), Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland

    M. J. O’Grady, R. W. Collier & S. Keegan

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  1. DG Information Society and Media, Unit D3: Software Technologies, European Commission, Avenue de Beaulieu 29, level 4, office 49, 1049, Brussels, Belgium

    Paolo Bresciani

  2. DISI, University of Trento, 38100, Povo, Trento, Italy

    Paolo Giorgini

  3. Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney, 2000, Broadway, NSW, Australia

    Brian Henderson-Sellers

  4. School of Information Management and Technology Management, University of New South Wales, Australia

    Graham Low

  5. Higher Education Development Centre, University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand

    Michael Winikoff

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O’Hare, G.M.P., O’Grady, M.J., Collier, R.W., Keegan, S. (2005). Agents as Catalysts for Mobile Computing. In: Bresciani, P., Giorgini, P., Henderson-Sellers, B., Low, G., Winikoff, M. (eds) Agent-Oriented Information Systems II. AOIS 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3508. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11426714_13

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