Agents2Go: An Infrastructure for Location-Dependent Service Discovery in the Mobile Electronic Commerce Environment

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2001-07-14

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conference papers and proceedings preprints
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Olga Vladi Ratsimor, Vladimir Korolev, Anupam Joshi and Tim Finin, Agents2Go: An Infrastructure for Location-Dependent Service Discovery in the Mobile Electronic Commerce Environment, WMC '01 Proceedings of the 1st international workshop on Mobile commerce Pages 31-37 , 2001, DOI: 10.1145/381461.381467

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mobile information access
context dependent
location dependent
service discovery
agents
UMBC Ebiquity Research Group

Abstract

In recent years, the growth of Electronic Commerce and Mobile Computing has created a new concept of Mobile Electronic Commerce. In this paper we describe the Agents2Go System that attempts to solve problems related to location dependence that arise in a Mobile Electronic Commerce environment. Agents2Go is a distributed system that provides mobile users with the ability to obtain location dependent services and information. Our system also automatically obtains a user’s current geographical location in CDPD (Cellular Digital Packet Data) based systems without relying on external aids such as GPS (Global Positioning System).