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Ubiquitous computing draws a picture of a world where people access intelligent and easy-to-use services, irrespective of location and time. Software agent technology is a good candidate for ubiquitous computing, because the agent paradigm is by definition well suited for decentralized, heterogeneous and dynamic environments. This chapter presents the general requirements of the ubiquitous environment, and discusses the use of software agent technology to facilitate service provision and composition for ubiquitous client end systems.
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Tarkoma, S., Laukkanen, M., Raatikainen, K. (2005). Software Agents for Ubiquitous Computing. In: Design of Intelligent Multi-Agent Systems. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-44516-6_2
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