A softbot-based interface to the Internet
Communications of the ACM
Meta-Level Architectures and Reflection
Meta-Level Architectures and Reflection
Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Mobile Agents
MA '97 Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Mobile Agents
Tuple centres for the coordination of Internet agents
Proceedings of the 1999 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Agent system development method based on agent patterns
Proceedings of the 21st international conference on Software engineering
Principles of component-based design of intelligent agents
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Coordination for Internet Application Development
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Towards a Reference Model for Surveying Mobile Agent Systems
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Using Agents to Enable Collaborative Work
IEEE Internet Computing
Programming the Mobility Behaviour of Agents by Composing Itineraries
ASIAN '99 Proceedings of the 5th Asian Computing Science Conference on Advances in Computing Science
Mobile Agents and Logic Programming
MA '02 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Mobile Agents
MDM '03 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Mobile Data Management
Context-Aware Agent Platform in Ubiquitous Environments and Its Verification Tests
PERCOM '03 Proceedings of the First IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications
Extended Video Stream by Media Transcoding Functions
ICDCSW '04 Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops - W7: EC (ICDCSW'04) - Volume 7
A new HTN planning framework for agents in dynamic environments
CLIMA IV'04 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems
picoPlangent: an intelligent mobile agent system for ubiquitous computing
PRIMA'04 Proceedings of the 7th Pacific Rim international conference on Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Human-Centered planning for adaptive user situation in ambient intelligence environment
PRIMA'11 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Agents in Principle, Agents in Practice
Shine: a peer-to-peer based framework of network community support systems
Computer Communications
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Network environments give computer users the option of employing distributed information and services to complete a task. However, gathering information and using services distributed in networks requires knowing exactly what kinds of information and services are required for a task, where they are, and how they can be obtained or utilized. Tracking down the answers to these questions can be difficult, time consuming tasks for users. Mobile agent technology is expected to release them from having to do so. Instead, “intelligent” mobile agents will comprehend the user's requirements, search network nodes autonomously for appropriate information and services, and return with the answers. But several problems must be solved before we can expect agents to perform such actions effectively. We focus on the question of intelligence as a prerequisite for agent functions. What sort of intelligence is expected of agents? We have adopted a model based on the ability to make flexible plans. Specifically, we think mobile agents must be able to: understand user requirements; plan actions that will satisfy the requirements act according to the plan; modify the plan according to actual conditions when they differ from those initially expected; and execute the modified plan. We have implemented these functions in the Plangent system and validated their effectiveness in several example applications. We describe how we combined these planning functions with mobile agent facilities, and show how the agents behave intelligently in an example application of personal travel assistance