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FIPA-OS Agent Platform for Small-Footprint Devices

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Intelligent Agents VIII (ATAL 2001)

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The trend is towards having smaller and smaller mobile devices, also called small-footprint devices, allowing nomadic users to access the same services as with the static computers from virtually anywhere and at any time. The idea of having software agents running on small-footprint mobile devices sounds an attractive way of delivering services for nomadic users. One of the biggest problems is that the current agent platforms are designed to run on computers with a lot of resources, e.g., CPU power and memory. This paper discusses the problem area of having a FIPA-OS agent platform running on a small-footprint devices. Our views are based on experiences of running a FIPA-OS agent platform on Java-enabled small-footprint devices. The experiments were conducted using Casio Cassiopeia E-115, Psion Series 5mx and Compaq iPAQ H3630. Our results clearly show that without any optimizations FIPA-OS is not suited to run on small-footprint devices.

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  1. Sonera Corporation, P.O.Box 970, Teollisuuskatu 13, FIN-00051, SONERA Helsinki, Finland

    Mikko Laukkanen

  2. University of Helsinki, University of Helsinki, P.O.Box 26, Teollisuuskatu 23, FIN-00140, Helsinki, Finland

    Sasu Tarkoma & Jani Leinonen

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  1. Institute of Information and Computing Sciences Intelligent Systems Group, Utrecht University, Padualaan 14 De Uithof, 3508 TB, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    John-Jules Ch. Meyer

  2. Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, Henry Salvatori Computer Center 232, Los Angeles, CA, 90089-0781, USA

    Milind Tambe

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Laukkanen, M., Tarkoma, S., Leinonen, J. (2002). FIPA-OS Agent Platform for Small-Footprint Devices. In: Meyer, JJ.C., Tambe, M. (eds) Intelligent Agents VIII. ATAL 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2333. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45448-9_34

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