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cally necessitate interoperable agents that can migrate from subsystem to subsys-
tem. Agents provide the necessary apparatus to manage such system complexity.
Our on-going research is seeking to install a myriad of challenged devices within
the real-world environment, which can host agents of varying form and complex-
ity in order to monitor and respond to the needs of the public moving through
that environment.
Acknowledgements
This material is based, in part, upon works supported by Science Foundation
Ireland (SFI) through Grant No. 03/IN.3/1361. We gratefully acknowledge this
support. Michael O'Grady gratefully acknowledges the support of the Irish Re-
search Council for Science, Engineering and Technology (IRCSET) through the
Embark Post-Doctoral award.
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