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Internet agents for effective collaboration. / Renganarayanan, V.; Helal, Sumi; Nalla, A. et al.
Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications. MATA 2002. ed. / A. Karmouch; T. Magedanz; J. Delgado. Berlin : Springer, 2002. p. 33-47 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 2521).Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review
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TY - GEN
T1 - Internet agents for effective collaboration
AU - Renganarayanan, V.
AU - Helal, Sumi
AU - Nalla, A.
A2 - A., Karmouch
A2 - J., Delgado
A2 - T., Magedanz
A2 - Karmouch, A.
A2 - Magedanz, T.
A2 - Delgado, J.
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - With the ever-growing Internet, distributed applications are gaining popularity. Going “online” to browse, to send/receive emails is an integral part of our daily lives. In fact, the majority of Internet users rely on email and web browsers as the de-facto tools for collaboration. Such popular tools, however, provide limited and inefficient mechanisms for collaboration, especially when several collaborators and resources are involved. Surprisingly, collaboration tools such as NetMeeting and Netscape Collabra are only used in limited applications despite their rich collaboration support. What is lacking is an invisible infrastructure that extends email and web browsing tools – to which most Internet users are accustomed and addicted – to intuitive interfaces of a full-fledged Web collaboration system. In this paper we present WAPM, a Web Agent Programming Model that uses mobile agents as the tool for coordination and describes a model that uses familiar tools such as the web and email for effective asynchronous collaboration. We introduce WAPM and give details of a simple scripting language used to direct agent actions, a pre-processor to check the validity of the script, an agent manager that creates and manages agents according to the script and a defined class hierarchy for developing application agents in WAPM. The mobile agents are based on the aZIMAs (almost Zero Infrastructure Mobile Agents) system that integrates mobile agents with web servers by providing mobility using HT. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2002.
AB - With the ever-growing Internet, distributed applications are gaining popularity. Going “online” to browse, to send/receive emails is an integral part of our daily lives. In fact, the majority of Internet users rely on email and web browsers as the de-facto tools for collaboration. Such popular tools, however, provide limited and inefficient mechanisms for collaboration, especially when several collaborators and resources are involved. Surprisingly, collaboration tools such as NetMeeting and Netscape Collabra are only used in limited applications despite their rich collaboration support. What is lacking is an invisible infrastructure that extends email and web browsing tools – to which most Internet users are accustomed and addicted – to intuitive interfaces of a full-fledged Web collaboration system. In this paper we present WAPM, a Web Agent Programming Model that uses mobile agents as the tool for coordination and describes a model that uses familiar tools such as the web and email for effective asynchronous collaboration. We introduce WAPM and give details of a simple scripting language used to direct agent actions, a pre-processor to check the validity of the script, an agent manager that creates and manages agents according to the script and a defined class hierarchy for developing application agents in WAPM. The mobile agents are based on the aZIMAs (almost Zero Infrastructure Mobile Agents) system that integrates mobile agents with web servers by providing mobility using HT. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2002.
KW - Electronic mail
KW - Internet
KW - Telecommunication services
KW - Web browsers
KW - World Wide Web
KW - Asynchronous collaboration
KW - Class hierarchies
KW - Collaboration support
KW - Collaboration Tool
KW - Distributed applications
KW - Intuitive interfaces
KW - Scripting languages
KW - Web collaboration
KW - Mobile agents
U2 - 10.1007/3-540-36086-7_4
DO - 10.1007/3-540-36086-7_4
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
SN - 3540000216
SN - 9783540360865
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
SP - 33
EP - 47
BT - Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications. MATA 2002
PB - Springer
CY - Berlin
ER -