Title :
Mobile agents: can they assist with context awareness?
Author :
Zaslavsky, Arkady
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Software Eng., Monash Univ., Caufield East, Vic., Australia
Abstract :
This position paper argues that the mobile agents paradigm is a useful and important technology enabling pervasive and ubiquitous computing. Context awareness drives adaptability of pervasive computing systems. It is asserted that mobile agents capable of discovering, extracting, interpreting and validating context will make significant contribution to increasing efficiency, flexibility and feasibility of pervasive computing systems.
Keywords :
Internet; context-sensitive grammars; distributed programming; mobile agents; mobile computing; ubiquitous computing; Internet; context awareness; context discovery; context extraction; context interpretation; context validation; mobile agents; pervasive computing; software agents; ubiquitous computing; virtual pervasive world; Application software; Computer science; Context awareness; Context-aware services; Intelligent agent; Mobile agents; Mobile computing; Pervasive computing; Software agents; Wireless sensor networks;
Conference_Titel :
Mobile Data Management, 2004. Proceedings. 2004 IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2070-7
DOI :
10.1109/MDM.2004.1263080
