Authors:
Milene Serrano
and
Carlos José Pereira de Lucena
Affiliation:
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil
Keyword(s):
Ubiquitous computing, Mobility, Intentional multi-agent systems, Systematic development, Service omnipresence, Device heterogeneity, User satisfaction, Adaptability, Context-awareness.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Agents
;
Artificial Intelligence
;
Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems
;
Distributed and Mobile Software Systems
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Mobile Agents
;
Multi-Agent Systems
;
Software Engineering
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
Being everywhere, going anywhere and accessing at any time. Ubiquitous computing is the paradigm of service omnipresence, device heterogeneity, calm technology application and user satisfaction. Therefore, the success of ubiquitous systems depends on the mobile computing nature. In this paper, we introduce the application of intentional mobile agents in the systematic development of ubiquitous systems. These agents are commonly used to perform specific activities in dedicated servers, such as the content adaptability based on the ubiquitous profiles information. It demands context-awareness, which can be improved by exploring critical interactions among mobility, smart-spaces and cognitive-based autonomous entities. Finally, we show how our proposal has been appropriately applied to a ubiquitous system from the e-commerce domain.