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The Role of Agents in Intelligent Mobile Services

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Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA 2004)

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In this paper we argue that the agent paradigm offers promising techniques for dealing with the challenges of building intelligent mobile services. We present Agent Oriented Software Engineering as a solution for the problems in designing a new generation of mobile services. To illustrate our position, we present a brief agent-oriented analysis of a mobile commerce scenario.

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  1. Institute of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Fernando Koch

  2. Department of Information Systems, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia

    Iyad Rahwan

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    Nik Kasabov

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Koch, F., Rahwan, I. (2005). The Role of Agents in Intelligent Mobile Services. In: Barley, M.W., Kasabov, N. (eds) Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. PRIMA 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3371. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-32128-6_10

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