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On using the CAMA framework for developing open mobile fault tolerant agent systems

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Alexei Iliasov,

Alexander RomanovskyAuthors Info & Claims

SELMAS '06: Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Software engineering for large-scale multi-agent systems

Pages 29 - 36

https://doi.org/10.1145/1138063.1138070

Published: 22 May 2006 Publication History

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The paper introduces the Cama (Context-Aware Mobile Agents) framework intended for developing large-scale mobile applications using the agent paradigm. Cama provides a powerful set of abstractions, a supporting middleware and an adaptation layer allowing developers to address the main characteristics of the mobile applications: openness, asynchronous and anonymous communication, fault tolerance, device mobility. It ensures recursive system structuring using location, scope, agent and role abstractions. Cama supports system fault tolerance through exception handling and structured agent coordination. The applicability of the framework is demonstrated using an ambient lecture scenario - the first part of an ongoing work on a series of ambient campus applications.

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SELMAS '06: Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Software engineering for large-scale multi-agent systems

May 2006

117 pages

ISBN:1595933956

DOI:10.1145/1138063

Conference Chairs:
Ricardo Choren
Military Institute of Engineering, Brazi)
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Alessandro Garcia
Lancaster University, UK
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Holger Giese
University of Paderborn, Germany
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Ho-fung Leung
Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
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Carlos Lucena
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Alexander Romanovsky
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

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