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    <pub:title><![CDATA[An Intelligent Broker Architecture for Context-Aware Systems]]></pub:title>
    <pub:publishedOn rdf:datatype="&xsd;dateTime">2002-12-31T00:00:00-05:00</pub:publishedOn>
    <pub:abstract><![CDATA[Context-aware computing is an emerging paradigm to free everyday users
from manually configuring and instructing computer systems. As the general
trend of computing is progressing towards an open and dynamic infrastructure,
building context-aware systems can be difficult and costly. In order to build
successful context-aware systems, we must develop an architecture to reduce the
difficulty and cost of building these systems. This PhD. dissertation proposal
describes a research plan to develop a broker-centric agent architecture that
is aimed to relieve the burden of capability-limited agents of acquiring and
reasoning about contexts, and to protect the privacy of users in a contextaware
environment. The implementation of the Context Broker Archiecture
will explore Web Ontology Language for modeling contexts and privacy policies,
Jess for building a hybrid reasoning mechanism and JADE/FIPA for realizing
broker behaviors and agent communications.]]></pub:abstract>
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    <pub:booktitle><![CDATA[PhD Dissertation Proposal]]></pub:booktitle>
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