A Generic Agent-based Peer-to-Peer Infrastructure for Social-mobile Applications

: This paper presents a generic agent-based framework for social-mobile applications, which has been developed as part of an ongoing linkage project. The MobiSoft project is driven by the vision of facilitating, augmenting, and promoting human social interaction by electronic personal assistants during face-to-face encounters. Possible areas of social mobile applications include the establishment of groups or communities based on shared interests or goals, the exchange of information such as personal profiles, news, private sales, or any kind of recommendations, and the preselection of possible communication partners in social networks. As part of this ongoing project, we have developed a new agent-based peer-to-peer software infrastructure for socialmobile applications. It focuses on strategies for information exchange in mobile adhoc networks and techniques for information representation using semantically rich languages based on existing standards. In contrast to existing approaches...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2006
• Where: MMS
• Authors: Steffen Kern, Torsten Dettborn, Ronny Eckhaus, Yang Ji, Christian Erfurth, Wilhelm Rossak
• Keywords: Generic Agent-based Framework, MMS 2006, MMS 2007, Ongoing Linkage Project, Social Mobile Applications