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Fig. 4. The Agent Factory IDE (top) and the VIPER Protocol Editor (bottom).
tion or service that many people would anticipate being available in the coming
years. In this it is not unique as the literature is sprinkled with prototypical sys-
tems for various application domains. Gulliver's Genie harvests concepts from a
number of disciplines. It exhibits context-awareness, adaptivity and incorporates
principles from user modelling. One of its distinguishing features is its proactive
anticipation of user needs and the subsequent intelligent precaching of multime-
dia content on the tourist's host device thus achieving the distribution of content
in a just-in-time basis [26].