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The JaCa-Android Framework for Programming BDI-Based Personal Agents on Mobile Devices

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Abstract

Nowadays, smart mobile applications are a medium allowing more and more for developing (part of) complex software systems, featuring interactive behaviour and exhibiting different degrees of autonomy and flexibility. In agents and MAS literature, Personal Assistant Agents represent the area that mostly can benefit from the availability of frameworks allowing for easily developing native agent-based applications able to exploit features offered by smart mobile and wearable devices. This paper discusses the JaCa-Android framework, a version of JaCaMo redesigned to natively run over mobile devices equipped with Google Android operating system. Exposing native features to observe and perceive the real-time user context and act accordingly, the framework is oriented in particular to the development of smart mobile apps as BDI-based personal assistant agents offering a proper layer of abstraction for this specific purpose.

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Notes

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    Currently in JaCa-Android, the organization dimension – provided in JaCaMo by MOISE – has not been considered yet because at the moment it is not relevant for the mobile apps as agents vision. Nonetheless, future improvements will include the full JaCaMo stack.

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    An Android Package (APK) is an archive containing all resources and libraries of an Android app along with its binary code.

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    https://developer.android.com/studio/.

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Croatti, A., Ricci, A. (2020). The JaCa-Android Framework for Programming BDI-Based Personal Agents on Mobile Devices. In: Demazeau, Y., Holvoet, T., Corchado, J., Costantini, S. (eds) Advances in Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Trustworthiness. The PAAMS Collection. PAAMS 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12092. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49778-1_7

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