Living Documents - Micro Servers for Documents

Schimkat, Ralf-Dieter; Küchlin, Wolfgang

doi:10.1007/3-540-36128-6_32

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“…This dichotomy has become apparent with the advent of proactive documents, implemented as autonomous software agents with built-in execution capability. Examples of technical implementation of such documents include placeless documents (Dourish et al, 2000), living documents based on an agent framework (Schimkat and Küchlin, 2002) or interactive documents implemented by us as mobile agents -which instead of a real agent platform rely on commonly available standard e-mail services to migrate over a network of loosely coupled mobile devices. Our document-agents can be proactive in three ways: by embedding pieces of code or scripts that may be executed directly on the receiving device, scripts that can test for availability and request activation of various local tools installed on the device, or scripts requesting the local worker's system to call specific remote services the document would like to have access to.…”

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Bilateral multi-issue negotiation of execution contexts by proactive document agents

Kaczorek

Wiszniewski

2019

IJAHUC

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A proactive document can react to its actual environment by autonomously selecting and performing actions integrated into its body and interact with its user. When migrating over a network of execution devices it may encounter diverse execution contexts, each one set up according to temporal characteristics of a receiving device and preferences of its owner. A concept to augment proactive documents with negotiation capability is proposed-to make them responsive to such dynamically changing contexts, and implemented in a system, where they can migrate as attachments to e-mail messages, owing to a dedicated e-mail client capable of handling them. Negotiation is based on a simple game-theoretic mechanism to minimise computation load on execution devices. Four negotiation algorithms are proposed and two of them evaluated in more detail in a series of experiments, when respectively, negotiating parties do not or do have knowledge on past encounters and negotiated contracts.

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confidence: 99%