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Context-aware exception handling in mobile agent systems: the MoCA case

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Karla Damasceno,

Alessandro Garcia,

Alexander Romanovsky,

Carlos LucenaAuthors Info & Claims

SELMAS '06: Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Software engineering for large-scale multi-agent systems

Pages 37 - 44

https://doi.org/10.1145/1138063.1138071

Published: 22 May 2006 Publication History

Abstract

Handling erroneous conditions in context-aware mobile agent systems is challenging due to their intrinsic characteristics: openness, lack of structuring, mobility, asynchrony, and increased unpredictability. Even though several context-aware middleware systems support now the development of mobile agent-based applications, they rarely provide explicit and adequate features for context-aware exception handling. This paper reports our experience in implementing error handling strategies in some prototype context-aware collaborative applications built with the MoCA (Mobile Collaboration Architecture) system. MoCA is a publish-subscribe middleware supporting the development of collaborative mobile applications by incorporating explicit services to empower software agents with context-awareness. We propose a novel context-aware exception handling mechanism and discuss some lessons learned during its integration in the MoCA infrastructure. The discussions include how to use other emerging implementation techniques, such as aspect-oriented programming, to address the limitations of classical publish-subscribe mechanisms identified in our study.

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Context-aware exception handling in mobile agent systems: the MoCA case
1. Computing methodologies
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SELMAS '06: Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Software engineering for large-scale multi-agent systems

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ISBN:1595933956

DOI:10.1145/1138063

Conference Chairs:
Ricardo Choren
Military Institute of Engineering, Brazi)
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Alessandro Garcia
Lancaster University, UK
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Holger Giese
University of Paderborn, Germany
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Ho-fung Leung
Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
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Carlos Lucena
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Alexander Romanovsky
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

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