Mobile devices and intelligent agents-towards a new generation of applications and services

  • Authors:
  • M. J. O'Grady;G. M. P. O'Hare

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Practice & Research in Intelligent Systems and Media (PRISM), University College Dublin (UCD), Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland;Department of Computer Science, Adaptive Information Cluster (AIC), University College Dublin (UCD), Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland

  • Venue:
  • Information Sciences: an International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

If mobile computing is to become the pre-dominant computer usage paradigm in the coming years as is widely anticipated, a substantial increase in the demand for mobile computing applications and services will arise. How best to engineer such applications remains an open question and is naturally the focus of much research. In this article, we propose the use of intelligent agents as the constituent entities around which such applications and services can be conceptualised and realised. We describe the design and implementation of Gulliver's Genie, an archetypal ubiquitous computing application that commissions a collaborative embedded agents approach.