HTML5 Agents – Mobile Agents for the Web

Kari Systä, Tommi Mikkonen, Laura Järvenpää

2013

Abstract

The emergence of HTML5 allows more applications to be run in browsers. Although most of these applications are often network connected, they can also run in off-line mode and especially after deployment they are not necessarily dependent on any server. We argue that the modern Web infrastructure with HTML5 as such can be an agent platform and mobile agents could be developed in similar way as Web applications. For us the agents can also be end-user applications that the user can send to a server so that the state is preserved and the execution can continue. The user can later fetch the agent to the same client device or to another device. In addition to the mobile agent use cases, the concept also allows users to continue their work later on another device or even allows other users to continue execution in their own devices. The paper presents the overall concept and architecture of HTML5 agents, a number of use cases, the proof-ofconcept implementation, and a list of example applications.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Systä K., Mikkonen T. and Järvenpää L. (2013). HTML5 Agents – Mobile Agents for the Web . In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-8565-54-9, pages 37-44. DOI: 10.5220/0004368800370044

in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist13,
author={Kari Systä and Tommi Mikkonen and Laura Järvenpää},
title={HTML5 Agents – Mobile Agents for the Web},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2013},
pages={37-44},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004368800370044},
isbn={978-989-8565-54-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - HTML5 Agents – Mobile Agents for the Web
SN - 978-989-8565-54-9
AU - Systä K.
AU - Mikkonen T.
AU - Järvenpää L.
PY - 2013
SP - 37
EP - 44
DO - 10.5220/0004368800370044