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International Workshop on Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-agent Systems

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Exception Handling in Context-Aware Agent Systems: A Case Study

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Handling erroneous conditions in context-aware mobile agent systems is challenging due to their intrinsic characteristics: openness, lack of structuring, mobility, asynchrony and increased unpredictability. Even though several context-aware middleware systems now support the development of mobile agent-based applications, they rarely provide explicit and adequate features for context-aware exception handling. This paper reports our experience in implementing error handling strategies in some prototype context-aware collaborative applications built with the MoCA (Mobile Collaboration Architecture) system. MoCA is a publish-subscribe middleware supporting the development of collaborative mobile applications by providing explicit services that empower software agents with context-awareness. We propose a novel context-aware exception handling mechanism and discuss some lessons learned during its integration in the MoCA infrastructure.

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  • Exception handling
  • mobile agents
  • mobile computing
  • pervasive computing
  • context-awareness
  • middleware
  • ambient intelligence

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  1. Computing Department, Lancaster University, UK

    Nelio Cacho & Alessandro Garcia

  2. Computer Science Department, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Karla Damasceno & Carlos Lucena

  3. Computer Science School, Newcastle University, UK

    Alexander Romanovsky

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    Cacho, N., Damasceno, K., Garcia, A., Romanovsky, A., Lucena, C. (2007). Exception Handling in Context-Aware Agent Systems: A Case Study. In: Choren, R., Garcia, A., Giese, H., Leung, Hf., Lucena, C., Romanovsky, A. (eds) Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems V. SELMAS 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4408. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73131-3_4

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