Service oriented context-aware software agents for greater efficiency

Authors:
Kutila Gunasekera;Arkady Zaslavsky;Shonali Krishnaswamy;Seng Wai Loke
Affiliations:
Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Australia;Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Australia and Luleå University of Technology, Sweden;Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Australia;Department of Computer Science & Computer Engineering, La Trobe University, Australia
Venue:
KES-AMSTA'10 Proceedings of the 4th KES international conference on Agent and multi-agent systems: technologies and applications, Part I
Year:
2010

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Abstract

Convergence of web service technology with intelligent and mobile agent technology, enhanced with context awareness, can produce a new software paradigm that will enable more efficient and effective mobile services. Traditionally, an agent has been a passive service requestor with the service processing happening at the provider's site. We propose that in some situations it would be beneficial if the agent could acquire the ability to execute the functionality provided by the service and run it locally instead of simply using the service. To this end, we build an analytical model which compares time consumption of traditional service access with that of component use. Such a model would allow an agent to dynamically select the more efficient approach. We describe experiments which compare the two approaches and discuss the results and lessons learnt.