Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications

We present different options for storing elements of agent communication. We base our approach on the assumption that elements of a single agent conversation instance can serve multiple purposes. We consider mobile adaptive agents that visit several kinds of domains and perform tasks that require communication with local systems. Especially, we focus on the action-related elements included in conversations. We make a distinction between typeand instance-level elements of and give reusability examples of both categories. We consider options ranging from storing the entire conversations to storing only the communicative acts taking place during the conversation.