Location-Dependent Services for Mobile Users

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans.

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 667-681

  Cabri, Giacomo ^a   Leonardi, Letizia ^a   Mamei, Marco ^a   Zambonelli, Franco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Context awareness; Coordination infrastructures; M services; Mobility; Multiagent systems

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; MIDDLEWARE; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANTS; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES; TRACKING (POSITION); WORLD WIDE WEB;

CONTEXT AWARENESS; LOCATION-DEPENDENT SERVICES; MOBILE AGENTS;

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0346076753     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2003.819496     Document Type: Article

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