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KSACI: A Handheld Device Infrastructure for Agents Communication

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Intelligent Agents VIII (ATAL 2001)

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The recent development of software platforms for cell phones and handheld computers, such as Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME), has broadened application perspectives in this area. The developers can now write their own software to run in handheld devices, what was impossible recently since the platforms were proprietary. Among the myriad of applications for these devices, some of them are very complex thus requiring the intelligent behavior typically provided by agents. However, since J2ME is a very recent platform, there are no well-established J2ME-based environments or tools for agent development yet. In this context, it is extremely helpful to develop building-block components, such as deductive inference mechanisms and communication languages and protocols. This paper describes the KSACI, a tool that provides communication infrastructure among agents running in handheld devices. KSACI supports KQML, as the outer language, and XML, as the inner one. KSACI extends SACI (Simple Agent Communication Infrastructure), a Java open-source communication infrastructure for desktop agents. Together with two other works presented in this book, KSACI represents a pioneer effort in the development of such communication tools. KSACI is already fully implemented and its preliminary test results on cell phone emulators are encouraging.

This work is partially supported by CNPq, Brazil, grants 301041/95-4 and 520263/99-5; and by CNPq/NSF PROTEM-CC MAPPEL project, grant 680033/99-8.

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  1. Centro de Informática, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Cx. Postal 7851, 50732-970, Recife, PE, Brasil

    Ryan L. Albuquerque, Gustavo E. de Paula & Geber L. Ramalho

  2. Laboratório de Técnicas Inteligentes, Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo, Av. Prof. Luciano Gualberto, 158, tr. 3, 05508-900, São Paulo, SP, Brasil

    Jomi F. Hübner & Jaime S. Sichman

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  1. Institute of Information and Computing Sciences Intelligent Systems Group, Utrecht University, Padualaan 14 De Uithof, 3508 TB, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    John-Jules Ch. Meyer

  2. Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, Henry Salvatori Computer Center 232, Los Angeles, CA, 90089-0781, USA

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Albuquerque, R.L., Hübner, J.F., de Paula, G.E., Sichman, J.S., Ramalho, G.L. (2002). KSACI: A Handheld Device Infrastructure for Agents Communication. In: Meyer, JJ.C., Tambe, M. (eds) Intelligent Agents VIII. ATAL 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2333. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45448-9_32

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