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LEAP: A FIPA Platform for Handheld and Mobile Devices

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Intelligent Agents VIII (ATAL 2001)

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The ever-increasing importance of the market of portable devices is promoting the migration of technologies originally developed for the fixed network to the mobile network. This paper describes the general aim and the current results of a European-scale project intended to provide the enabling technology for deploying multi-agent systems across fixed and mobile networks. The LEAP project achieves its goal realising a FIPA platform that can be deployed seamlessly on any Java-enabled device with sufficient resources and with a wired or wireless connection. Such a platform is implemented as a new kernel for JADE to ease the migration of legacy agents to the mobile network and it exploits a modular design to scale its functionality with the capabilities of the device.

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  1. Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Università degli Studi di Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 181 A, 43100, Parma, Italy

    Federico Bergenti & Agostino Poggi

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  1. Institute of Information and Computing Sciences Intelligent Systems Group, Utrecht University, Padualaan 14 De Uithof, 3508 TB, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    John-Jules Ch. Meyer

  2. Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, Henry Salvatori Computer Center 232, Los Angeles, CA, 90089-0781, USA

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Bergenti, F., Poggi, A. (2002). LEAP: A FIPA Platform for Handheld and Mobile Devices. In: Meyer, JJ.C., Tambe, M. (eds) Intelligent Agents VIII. ATAL 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2333. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45448-9_33

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