Intelligent Agents for Mobile and Embedded Devices

Abstract

The pervasive computing environments of the near future will involve the interactions, coordination and cooperation of numerous, casually accessible, and often invisible computing devices. These devices, whether carried on our person or embedded in our homes, businesses and classrooms, will connect via wireless and wired links to one another and to the global networking infrastructure. The result will be a networking milieu with a new level of openness. The localized and dynamic nature of their interactions raises many new issues that draw on and challenge the disciplines of agents, distributed systems, and security. This paper describes recent work by the UMBC Ebiquity research group which addresses some of these issues.

Concurrency Control Monitor for Nested Transactions based on Autonomous Agents

“…Problems within a mobile environment arise when some device loses its connection due to: low batteries, change of the physical location and links instability. Our purpose is the development of a more persistent and fault-tolerant mechanism, that deals with the loss of communication between devices in a mobile environment likewise in [Finin02]. In [Loke02], there is a mobile database approach like the one introduced in the present work.…”

An Agent Construction Model for Ubiquitous Computing Devices

“…Agent-based systems have a key role role to play in the effort to provide and support such integration, since agents embody several of the required characteristics for effective and robust operation in ubiquitous environments [4,12]. A central area of concern for supporting agents operating in such heterogeneous environments, which place differing and varying demands and limitations on them, is the development of appropriate agent architectures for the device and environment within which they are operating.…”