Monads - Adaptation Agents for Nomadic Users

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Abstract

The environment of nomadic computing is very different from that of traditional distributed systems today. The variety of mobile workstations, handheld devices, and smart phones, which nomadic users use to access data services in the Internet, increases at growing rate. The outcome is new demands for adaptability of data services. Agent technology is one of the software solutions that may be used to fulfill the demand of "anytime-anywhere-anyhow" access to data services. The research project Monads addresses some of the fundamental challenges in supporting nomadic applications: adaptability to available computing and communication resources that vary in tempo-spatial space and short-term (1-30 minutes) predictions of available resources. In addition to adaptability and predictions, efficient agent communication in wireless environments is a mandatory prerequisite.

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World Telecom '99.

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