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protocols, and ontologies, but does not consider agent mobility. The basic
FIPA specification for an abstract architecture (FIPA 00001) for an agent
system explicitly omits agent mobility.
In 2000 a new set of FIPA specifications, which included FIPA 00087 for
agent mobility, was released. In the appendix of the specification some
issues are discussed related to the problem of integrating MASIF and FIPA.
However, the current status of this specification is deprecated (May 2002).
Refer to Ametller et al. [2003] for more information about the FIPA standard
and agent mobility issues.
2.3 Similar but Different Concepts
2.3.1 Internet Agents, Worms, and Spiders
Internet agents, also called worms, robots, spiders, ...