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Communication between mobile agents and their users is an interesting but largely unresearched topic with important applications. We investigate the various types of interaction required and propose a versatile, easy-to-implement and secure WWW-based method to allow mobile agents to interact with arbitrary users.
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Lingnau, A., Drobnik, O. (1998). Agent-user communications: Requests, results, interaction. In: Rothermel, K., Hohl, F. (eds) Mobile Agents. MA 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1477. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0057661
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