Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications: 4th International Workshop, MATA 2002 Barcelona, Spain, October 23-24, 2002, Proceedings

Research in the telecommunications field suggests that future network infrastructures will be composed of sensors, wireless devices, personal digital assistants, networked appliances and numerous types of services. This brings up key issues such as unfamiliar users and service interfaces, discovering services that match user’s needs, finding and tracking people and resources, establishing useful contacts and appropriate associations between resources and users, and managing a large number o...