Context-Dependency in Internet-Agent Coordination


Giacomo Cabri, Letizia Leonardi, Franco Zambonelli

Engineering Societies in the Agents World, pages 51-63
Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1972
Springer
January 2000

The design and development of Internet applications can take advantage of a paradigm based on autonomous and mobile agents. However, mobility introduces peculiar coordination problems in multiagent-based Internet applications. First, it suggests the exploitation of an infrastructure based on a multiplicity of local interaction spaces. Second, it may require coordination activities to be adapted both to the characteristics of the execution environment where they occur and to the needs of the application to which the coordinating agents belong. In this context, this paper introduces the concept of context-dependent coordination based on programmable interaction spaces. On the one hand, interaction spaces associated to different execution environments may be independently programmed so as to lead to differentiated, environment-dependent, behaviors. On the other hand, agents can program the interaction spaces of the visited execution environments to obtain an application-dependent behavior of the interaction spaces themselves. Several examples show how a model of context-dependent coordination can be effectively exploited in Internet applications based on mobile agents. In addition, several systems are briefly presented that, to different extent, define a model of context-dependent coordination.

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— authors

Giacomo Cabri, Letizia Leonardi, Franco Zambonelli

— status

published

— sort

paper in proceedings

— publication date

January 2000

— volume

Engineering Societies in the Agents World

— series

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

— volume

1972

— pages

51-63

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— DOI

10.1007/3-540-44539-0

— print ISSN

0302-9743

— online ISSN

1611-3349

— ISBN–13

978-3-540-41477-3

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1st International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agent World (ESAW 2000)

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