The Java Language Specification
The Java Language Specification
NetChaser: Agent Support for Personal Mobility
IEEE Internet Computing
Facility Provision Using Mobile Agents
DEXA '01 Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications
CIA - a collaboration and coordination infrastructure for personal agents (short paper)
Proceedings of the IFIP WG 6.1 International Working Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems II
Adaptive Mobile Access to Context-Aware Services
ASAMA '99 Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Agent Systems and Applications Third International Symposium on Mobile Agents
Mobile Agent Network for Supporting Personal Mobility
ICOIN '98 Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Information Networking
A Survey of Context-Aware Mobile Computing Research
A Survey of Context-Aware Mobile Computing Research
Context-Aware Computing Applications
WMCSA '94 Proceedings of the 1994 First Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications
Advanced service provisioning based on mobile agents
Computer Communications
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In the near future, people can use various kinds of portable terminal devices, such as PDAs or smart phones, to access the information on Internet at any time, in any place, for supporting their daily life. Personal mobile agents can help those people to search, to filter, to analyze, or to translate the large amount of Internet information. Since the context of a user may vary frequently, the way a personal mobile agent process the Internet information must adapt to the context change. However, we think that the current mainstream mobile agent platforms, such as the IBM Aglet and the IKV++ Grasshopper, are not good enough for developing context-aware applications. Hence, we propose a Component-based, Reconfigurable Mobile Agent (CRMA) system, which is designed for context-aware computing. It offers downloadable user-interface modules on terminal devices for application to adapt the characteristics of various terminal devices. In addition, on agent side, CRMA provides a reconfigurable agent-programming framework, which uses component-based pipelines to perform context-aware data-processing operations. This not only simplifies the programming task for dynamically reconfiguring an agent's behavior to adapt the context change, but also improves the reusability of agent software. In the end of this paper, we will propose a context-aware meta-search service to demonstrate how to use CRMA to develop a context-aware application.