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With the current advances of mobile computing technology, we are witnessing an explosion in the development of applications that provide mobile users with a wide range of services. Of special interest are those applications that exploit the particular features of mobile environments to provide the user with context-aware information. In particular, we focus on location-dependent queries, which are still a subject of research mainly due to the lack of an architecture that is well-adapted to deal with continuous location queries in an efficient way.
In this paper we present the distributed architecture, based on mobile agents, that we propose to process continuous location-dependent queries in mobile environments. We then evaluate our proposal, showing that the system achieves a good precision and scales up well.
This work was supported by the CICYT project TIC2001-0660, the DGA project P084/2001, and the research institute I3A.
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Ilarri, S., Mena, E., Illarramendi, A. (2004). A Mobile Agents Based Architecture for the Distributed Processing of Continuous Location Queries in a Wireless Environment: Performance Evaluation. In: Lindner, W., Mesiti, M., Türker, C., Tzitzikas, Y., Vakali, A.I. (eds) Current Trends in Database Technology - EDBT 2004 Workshops. EDBT 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3268. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30192-9_35
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