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The ability of retrieving and installing software in an easy and efficient way confers competitive advantage on computer users in general, and even more especially on mobile computer users. In this paper we present a software retrieval service that allows mobile users to select, retrieve and install software anywhere and at any time. This service makes use of agents that allow 1) a browsing of a software ontology automatically customized to different kind of users and user computers; 2) an efficient retrieval of the selected software; and 3) an automatic update of the available software ontology. A software obtaining process based on agents, that manage semantic descriptions of available software, presents a qualitative advance with respect to existing solutions where users must know the location and access method of various remote software repositories.
This work has been supported by CICYT (Comisión Interministerial de Ciencia y Tecnologí a, Spain [TIC97-0962]), MoviStar (a spanish cellular phone company) and the University of the Basque Country.
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Mena, E., Illarramendi, A., Goñi, A. (2000). A Software Retrieval Service Based on Knowledge-Driven Agents. In: Scheuermann, P., Etzion, O. (eds) Cooperative Information Systems. CoopIS 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1901. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/10722620_18
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