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GeoSPRINGS: Towards a Location-Aware Mobile Agent Platform

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Mobile agent technology enables the autonomous migration of code from one computer/device to another, to efficiently exploit the available computing resources or access data locally. It can provide interesting advantages in distributed and mobile computing scenarios. However, existing mobile agent platforms do not offer facilities for the design of agents that are location-aware and that can support a variety of communication options, including mobile ad hoc communications.

In this paper, we present our ongoing work towards the development of a location-aware mobile agent platform, that we call GeoSPRINGS. The platform provides functionalities for agents to travel to specific geographic locations/areas and to perform geo-cast communications, as well as the capability to operate using both wide-area cellular networks and direct ad hoc communications among the mobile devices.

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Acknowledgments

This work has been supported by the project TIN2016-78011-C4-3-R (AEI/FEDER, UE) and DGA-FSE (COS2MOS research group).

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, University of Zaragoza, I3A, Zaragoza, Spain

    Sergio Ilarri & Raquel Trillo

  2. Department of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain

    Pedro Roig

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    Miguel R. Luaces

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Ilarri, S., Roig, P., Trillo, R. (2018). GeoSPRINGS: Towards a Location-Aware Mobile Agent Platform. In: R. Luaces, M., Karimipour, F. (eds) Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems. W2GIS 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10819. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90053-7_6

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