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As a cooperative approach to provide ubiquitous services to home network configuration, we have earlier developed
an agent based approach called the Community Computing (CC) model [2, 3]. The
model helps to realize ubiquitous services by utilizing cooperation among intelligent
agents in a ubiquitous environment. In CC approach, services are provided by
communities of agents having a common goal. This approach helps to intuitively
design ubiquitous services based on agent cooperation. A community consists of
agents cooperating with other agents in order to achieve the community's goals, and
the problems of ubiquitous computing systems are solved by such communities. We
introduce the essential concepts of community computing below.
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