MobiSoft: an agent-based middleware for social-mobile applications

  • Authors:
  • Steffen Kern;Peter Braun;Wilhelm Rossak

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Science Department, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany;The agent factory GmbH, Jena, Germany;Computer Science Department, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany

  • Venue:
  • OTM'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: AWeSOMe, CAMS, COMINF, IS, KSinBIT, MIOS-CIAO, MONET - Volume Part I
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We present an agent-based middleware for social-mobile applications, which has been developed as part of an ongoing linkage project One aspect of the MobiSoft project is the vision of facilitating, augmenting, and promoting human social interaction by electronic personal assistants during face-to-face encounters Possible areas of social mobile applications include the establishment of groups or communities based on shared interests or goals, the exchange of information such as personal profiles, news, private sales, or any kind of recommendations, and the preselection of possible communication partners in social networks We outline the decentralized peer-to-peer based architecture and present techniques for information representation using semantically rich languages based on existing standards We describe, how mobile agents are facilitated as user representatives and intelligent information carriers in mobile ad-hoc networks and present a first prototype of a social-mobile application.