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Framework for Supporting JavaScript-Based Mobile Agents

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The emergence both of World Wide Web and distributed systems solutions allowed many communication paradigms to appear, being the client-server the most common today. Here, we present an agent-based platform for the mobile agents computing paradigm. The platform components have been designed to allow the development, execution, tracking and the ability to move JavaScript mobile agents through the local network and Internet. All components are based on the JavaScript programming language in order to reach desktop and mobile operating systems, such as Android and iOS. This initiative arose as a way of dealing with problems raised by the considerable amount of existing Java based mobile agents platforms, which force the installation of the Java Virtual Machine on the devices, making complicated their execution in operating systems like macOS and others non-Java friendly operating systems, including mobile ones.

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Thanks to both the Secretaría de Educación Superior, Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (SENESCYT) and the Instituto de Fomento al Talento Humano of Ecuador, this research work would not have been possible without his financial support.

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  1. School of Technology and Management, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, R. Gen. Norton de Matos, 2411-901, Leiria, Portugal

    Carlos A. Silva

  2. Facultad de Ciencias Informáticas, Universidad Técnica de Manabí, Av. José María Urbina y Che Guevara, 130104, Portoviejo, Ecuador

    Carlos A. Silva & Jorge Veloz

  3. School of Technology and Management, CIIC, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, R. Gen. Norton de Matos, 2411-901, Leiria, Portugal

    Carlos Grilo & Nuno Costa

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  1. DEI/FCT, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Álvaro Rocha

  2. Facultad de Geografía, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago Compostela, La Coruña, Spain

    Carlos Ferrás

  3. Departamento de Eléctrica, Electrónica y Telecomunicaciones, Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas “ESPE”, Sangolqui, Ecuador

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Silva, C.A., Grilo, C., Veloz, J., Costa, N. (2019). Framework for Supporting JavaScript-Based Mobile Agents. In: Rocha, Á., Ferrás, C., Paredes, M. (eds) Information Technology and Systems. ICITS 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 918. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11890-7_36

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