On agent-based software engineering
Artificial Intelligence
JaCa-Android: an agent-based platform for building smart mobile applications
LADS'10 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Languages, methodologies, and development tools for multi-agent systems
Programming deliberative agents for mobile services: the 3APL-M platform
ProMAS'05 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Programming Multi-Agent Systems
Smart environment interaction: A user assessment of embedded agents
Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments - Intelligent agents in Ambient Intelligence and smart environments
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The comparatively recent move towards smartphones, and along with this new operating systems, such as Android, opens up new opportunities and offers potential to build new mobile agent-based applications. Android gives applications access to a wide-ranging set of sensors and different communication channels --- realizing the notion of nomadic computing --- and supports a concurrent application layout based on loosely coupled components. This combination makes it particularly suitable for agent-based applications. Yet, it has several limitations: Android is not a multi-agent system on its own behalf and does not consistently employ loose coupling to give access to its capabilities. To address those concerns we have ported our lightweight $#956;-agent framework $#956;2 to the Android platform and directly interfaced it with Android platform facilities. This offers mutual benefits: agent-based applications can access Android functionality in a loosely coupled and unified fashion, while at the same time allowing the developer to consistently think in an agent-oriented manner. Android can use the $#956;-agent platform as a lightweight middleware module to build distributed applications in a hybrid fashion. We present our system architecture, called Micro-agents on Android or MOA, and describe an example application using this approach as well as a performance benchmark. We further outline potential application areas and contrast it to existing approaches to build multi-agent applications on Android.