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Workshop on Infrastruture for Mobile and Wireless Systems

IMWS 2001: Developing an Infrastructure for Mobile and Wireless Systems pp 106–118Cite as

Agents, Mobility, and M-services: Creating the Next Generation Applications and Infrastructure on Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks

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With the advent of third generation wireless infrastructure, and the simultaneous emergence of pervasive connectivity for all devices based on Bluetooth like systems for ad-hoc networks, a new vista is open for research in the area of mobile systems. We describe here our ideas for realizing pervasive computing systems based on the cooperation of autonomous, dynamic and adaptive components (hardware as well as software) which are located in vicinity of one another. This is significantly different from “fixed-infrastructure-based”, mobile client/server computing between wirelessly connected PDAs and network services. It will enable a new class of applications that effectively exploit mobility and pervasive computing. We address several research problems that span the fields of data management and pervasive computing using multiagent systems as the enabling technology. We propose new agent frameworks and service discovery and delivery protocols most suitable to this new and emerging environment. We are building prototypes and applications in the context of mobile electronic commerce within dynamic communities of ad-hoc mobile services.

This work supported in part by NSF awards IIS 9875433 and CCR 0070802

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  1. Department of Computer Science & Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 21250, Baltimore, MD

    Anupam Joshi, Timothy Finin & Yelena Yesha

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  1. Karlsruhe University, Germany

    Birgitta König-Ries

  2. Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA

    Kia Makki  & Niki Pissinou  & 

  3. Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

    S.A.M. Makki

  4. Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

    Peter Scheuermann

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Joshi, A., Finin, T., Yesha, Y. (2002). Agents, Mobility, and M-services: Creating the Next Generation Applications and Infrastructure on Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks. In: König-Ries, B., Makki, K., Pissinou, N., Makki, S., Scheuermann, P. (eds) Developing an Infrastructure for Mobile and Wireless Systems. IMWS 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2538. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36257-6_10

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