INTENTIONAL MOBILE AGENTS IN UBIQUITOUS SYSTEMS

Milene Serrano, Carlos José Pereira de Lucena

2011

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.

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Serrano M. and Pereira de Lucena C. (2011). INTENTIONAL MOBILE AGENTS IN UBIQUITOUS SYSTEMS . In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-8425-41-6, pages 147-156. DOI: 10.5220/0003111201470156


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@conference{icaart11,
author={Milene Serrano and Carlos José Pereira de Lucena},
title={INTENTIONAL MOBILE AGENTS IN UBIQUITOUS SYSTEMS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART,},
year={2011},
pages={147-156},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003111201470156},
isbn={978-989-8425-41-6},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART,
TI - INTENTIONAL MOBILE AGENTS IN UBIQUITOUS SYSTEMS
SN - 978-989-8425-41-6
AU - Serrano M.
AU - Pereira de Lucena C.
PY - 2011
SP - 147
EP - 156
DO - 10.5220/0003111201470156