Purpose – To provide comprehensive literature review on the utilisation of intelligent agent technology in the library environment. Design/methodology/approach – Research papers since 1990 on the use of various intelligent agent technologies in libraries are divided into two main application areas: (1) Digital Library (DL), including agent-based DL projects, multi-agent architecture for DLs, in...

Telemedicine involves the integration of information, telecommunications, human-machine and healthcare technologies. One of the aspects of telecardiology known as teleelectrocardiography deploys Electrocardiography machines to transmit Electrocardiograms (ECG) over networks. Tele-electrocardiography diagnosis and ECG interpretation is simple, reliable and cost-effective. As different parts of t...

A framework for building adaptive network protocols for agent migration over a network is presented. A key idea of the framework is to introduce mobile agents as first-class objects. That is, the framework allows network protocols for agent migration to be naturally implemented within mobile agents and then dynamically deployed at network nodes by migrating the agents that carry the protocols. ...