Knowledge-Artifact Based Agents in Android: a case study

Today ANDROID is the most popular mobile operating system in the world: the development of ANDROID, together with the performance improvement offered by modern PDAs, like smart-phones and tablets, has allowed many users to know new kinds of applications that were not accessible to them in the recent past. In this paper we present a framework for programming agents in the ANDROID world, based on the Knowledge Artifact notion to develop knowledge-based systems. This framework has been modeled as a client–server architecture, with the aim to show how the imple-mentation of agents modeled on the basis of Knowledge Artifacts can help everyone to design, implement and use decision support systems for a specific domain, with many potential benefits in their day-by-day activities. The framework application will be presented in a prototype to support operators of Italian Fire Corps and Civil Protection Department in critical situations, like geographically distributed fires and earthquakes management.