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The article presents perspectives of how future directions in the development of the Internet could look like and how agents could support this evolution. The article describes recent Internet trends, discusses some ideas how future developments of the Internet might look like, presents some basics of agent technologies and discusses how agent technologies can contribute to the further development of the Internet.

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Fischer, K., Zinnikus, I., León-Soto, E. (2009). Agent Technologies in the Future Internet. In: D'Atri, A., Saccà, D. (eds) Information Systems: People, Organizations, Institutions, and Technologies. Physica-Verlag HD. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-2148-2_44

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