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The ubiquitous computing technology utilizing multi-agent system provides services suitable to the given situation without the restraint of time and space. Agent-oriented software engineering (AOSE) emerges to build a multi agent system in a large scale and capable of accommodating communications between diverse agents. Building on a meta-model of the community computing for the abstraction of agent system design in a previous work, our work focuses on a structure of community computing middleware leading to the extension of the system. The middleware proposed enables the framework of community computing, that is, a cooperative multi-agent approach, to be constituted in a dynamic fashion.

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  1. School of Computer Science and Information Engineering, The Catholic University of Korea, San 43-1 YuckGok 2-Dong WonMi-Gu, BuCheon-Si KyungGi-Do, South Korea
    Jung-Jin Yang & KyengWhan Jee

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  1. Jung-Jin Yang
  2. KyengWhan Jee

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  1. School of Design, Engineering and Computing, Bournemouth University, UK
    Bogdan Gabrys
  2. Centre for SMART Systems, School of Environment and Technology, University of Brighton, BN2 4GJ, Brighton, UK
    Robert J. Howlett
  3. School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Knowledge Based Intelligent Engineering Systems Centre, University of South Australia, SA, 5095, Mawson Lakes, Australia
    Lakhmi C. Jain

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Yang, JJ., Jee, K. (2006). From Community Models to System Requirements: A Cooperative Multi-agents Approach. In: Gabrys, B., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4252. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11893004\_64

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