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Design Options for Subscription Managers

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Agent-Oriented Information Systems III (AOIS 2005)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNAI,volume 3529))

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An important issue in open agent systems such as the Internet is the discovery of service providers by potential consumers (requesters). This paper is concerned with services that involve the ongoing provision of up-to-date information to requesters. We explore three separate issues: subscription to an information provider for ongoing provision of information; monitoring for new information providers; and maintaining awareness of when providers disappear from the system. We explore several models for how this functionality may best be provided, with emphasis on the ways in which certain choices affect the overall system; and provide an analysis of preferred design options for environments with different characteristics.

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  1. RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

    Aloys Mbala, Lin Padgham & Michael Winikoff

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  1. ISYS- Information Systems Research Unit, IAG-Louvain School of Management, Université catholique de Louvain, 1348, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

    Manuel Kolp

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

    Paolo Bresciani

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

    Brian Henderson-Sellers

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

    Michael Winikoff

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Mbala, A., Padgham, L., Winikoff, M. (2006). Design Options for Subscription Managers. In: Kolp, M., Bresciani, P., Henderson-Sellers, B., Winikoff, M. (eds) Agent-Oriented Information Systems III. AOIS 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3529. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11916291_18

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