Developing intelligent agents on the Android platform

Nowadays, agents may run on different hardware platforms, which is a useful approach in Ubiquitous Computing in order to achieve intelligent agents embedded in the environment. This approach can be considered the vision of an Intelligent Ambient. In this paper, a new agent model “specially” designed for the recent Android Google SDK is presented, where the Android mobile phone can be considered as a software agent. This agent model has an approach which is more practical than theoretical because it uses well-known abstractions which allow the proposed model to be implemented on different systems. The appearance of Android as an open system based on Linux has signalled new hope in the implementation of embedded agents. Finally, the proposed model abstractions used to design the Android agent have been employed to implement a simple example which shows the applicability of the proposal. keywords: Agent architecture, agent model.