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International Workshop on Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications

MATA 2002: Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications pp 1–10Cite as

Options for Reusing Agent Conversations

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We present different options for storing elements of agent communication. We base our approach on the assumption that elements of a single agent conversation instance can serve multiple purposes. We consider mobile adaptive agents that visit several kinds of domains and perform tasks that require communication with local systems. Especially, we focus on the action-related elements included in conversations.We make a distinction between type- and instance-level elements of and give reusability examples of both categories. We consider options ranging from storing the entire conversations to storing only the communicative acts taking place during the conversation.

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  1. VTT Information Technology, P.O.Box 1023, FIN-02044 VTT, Finland

    Santtu Toivonen

  2. Sonera Corporation, P.O.Box 970, FIN-00051, Sonera, Finland

    Heikki Helin

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  1. School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, 161, Louis Pasteur, K1N 6N5, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    Ahmed Karmouch

  2. Fraunhofer Institut FOKUS, Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 31, 10589, Berlin, Germany

    Thomas Magedanz

  3. Departament de Tecnologia, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Pg. Circumvallació 8, 08003, Barcelona, Spain

    Jaime Delgado

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Toivonen, S., Helin, H. (2002). Options for Reusing Agent Conversations. In: Karmouch, A., Magedanz, T., Delgado, J. (eds) Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications. MATA 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2521. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36086-7_1

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