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by providing the environment building block and its
relationships with the platform building block. The
proposed solution refers to all mobility types by
defining the mobility type object. We integrate all of
the mobility aspects within a single-unified
framework, whereas in the other methods the
integration of some of the mobility aspects is not
clear, difficult to understand, or non-exist.
Further research is required to examine the
accessibility and adherence of the OPM/MAS
approach to build agent-based systems and in
particular, mobile agents.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This work was partially funded by Deutsche
Telekom Laboratories at Ben-Gurion University.
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