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Applying Mobile Agents to Enable Dynamic, Context-Aware Interactions for Mobile Phone Users

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Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications (MATA 2001)

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Mobile agents can play a critical role in enabling dynamic applications on mobile phones. They can carry executable code, making possible effortless downloading of new capabilities and services to mobile phones. When combined with services that support context awareness, user customization, and sensitivity to the mobile phone environment, mobile agents can be used to provide the basis for a rich set of applications. This paper provides an overview of the problems faced in this application domain and outlines the approach we are following in our research.

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  1. Nokia Research Center, 5 Wayside Road, Burlinton, MA, USA

    Mark Adler & Michael Mahan

  2. Institute for Human & Machine Cognition, University of West Florida, 40 S. Alcaniz St., Pensacola, FL, USA

    Jeffrey M. Bradshaw & Niranjan Suri

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  1. Mobile Computing and Networking Research Laboratory (LARIM) Department of Computer Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, P.O. Box 6079, Station Centre-Ville, Montreal, (Quebec), Canada, H3C 3A7

    Samuel Pierre

  2. Ericsson Research Canada, 8400 Decarie Blvd., Town of Mount Royal, (Quebec), Canada, H4P 2N2

    Roch Glitho

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Adler, M., Bradshaw, J.M., Mahan, M., Suri, N. (2001). Applying Mobile Agents to Enable Dynamic, Context-Aware Interactions for Mobile Phone Users. In: Pierre, S., Glitho, R. (eds) Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications. MATA 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2164. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44651-6_18

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