Towards adaptive location-aware mobile assistants

Autor: Baus, J. and Ding, Y. and Kray,C. and Walther, U.

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In this paper we first look at a scenario to illustrate what services a truly adaptive mobile personal digital assistant should provid and how these should be offered to an untrained user. We identify relevant factors to be taken into account by a mobile assistance system and shortly review the current state of the art in mobile systems. We then propose an agent-based resource-adaptive framework to cope with the inherent complexity and dynamics of such systems. This framework does not only address important technical problems ( such as networking issues, location detection, and resource constraints) but also provides a mobile assistant with several strategies to adapt its services to the current situation.