Mobile Intelligent Agents in Active Virtual Pipes: Support for Virtual Enterprises

This chapter presents research results achieved in the ACTS AC338 project MIAMI (Mobile Intelligent Agents for Managing the Information Infrastructure). The MIAMI [1], [9] project focuses on the investigation of agent mobility and intelligence and the advantages of mobility in the context of service management and advanced communication services. MIAMI developed a unified Mobile Intelligent Agent framework able to meet the requirements of an emerging open information infrastructure. The key investigation issues were:

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