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This paper proposes a multiagent based virtual community as a new means to support pervasive computing services. We give a conceptual definition of the concept of Place-Based Virtual (PBV) Community. A PBV-community can be used in an environment of context-aware applications and is where agents can help users’ interactions with services within the PBV-community. We have proposed a model for a PBV-Community and implemented a prototype called “student digital assistant” based on the agent-oriented approach. We have developed a multiagent architecture and protocols to realize the PBV-community. Agents in this architecture can cooperate and collaborate to provide different services to end users based on the user’s context.
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Index Terms- multiagent, place-based comminuty, context-aware
Citation:
Tuan Nguyen, Seng Loke, Torab Torabi, Hongen Lu,
"Multiagent Place-Based Virtual Communities for Pervasive Computing,"
percom,
pp. 602-608,
2008 Sixth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications,
2008
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