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Coordination patterns of mobile information agents

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Cooperative Information Agents II Learning, Mobility and Electronic Commerce for Information Discovery on the Internet (CIA 1998)

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Abstract

Mobility is a mechanism to manage accessibility dependencies amongst agents. As such, it is a coordination mechanism in the interaction of agents, users, and information.

The Linda-like coordination language Mobile Object Spaces is used to express coordination of entities. It supports the basic operations for coordination by mobility as primitives.

Higher order coordination structures can be captured as coordination patterns that describe reoccuring building blocks. We present a template for the description of such patterns and describe some very simple coordination patterns in the area of mobility and information systems.

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  1. Fachbereich Informatik, Technische UniversitÄt Berlin, FLP/KIT, Sekr. FR 6-10,Franklinstr. 28/29, D-10587, Berlin, Germany

    Robert Tolksdorf

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Tolksdorf, R. (1998). Coordination patterns of mobile information agents. In: Klusch, M., Weiß, G. (eds) Cooperative Information Agents II Learning, Mobility and Electronic Commerce for Information Discovery on the Internet. CIA 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1435. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0053689

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