Awareness in Collaborative Ubiquitous Environments: The Multilayered Multi-Agent Situated System Approach

Collaborative Ubiquitous Environments (CUEs) are environments that support collaboration among persons in a context of ubiquitous computing. This article shows how results of the research in the Multi-Agent System (MAS) area, and in particular on MAS environments, can be used to model, design and engineer CUEs, with specific reference to the management of context-awareness information. After a description of the reference scenario, the Multilayered Multi-Agent Situated System model will be introduced and applied to represent and to manage several types of awareness information (both physical and logical contextual information). Finally, three different approaches to the design and engineering of CUEs will then be introduced and evaluated.

keywords   MAS environments, context awareness

origin event

 Special Issue “The AgentLink Perspective on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems”

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 AL3-TF2

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journal or series

 ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS)

container publication

 Special Issue on the AgentLink III Technical Forums (special issue, 2007) — Paolo Petta, Andrea Omicini, Terry R. Payne, Peter McBurney

companion publication

 Introduction to the Special Issue: The AgentLink III Technical Forums (editorial/introduction/preface, 2007) — Paolo Petta, Andrea Omicini, Terry R. Payne, Peter McBurney

 A Framework for Web Service Negotiation (article in journal, 2007) — Shamimabi Paurobally, Valentina Tamma, Michael Wooldridge

 Specifying Protocols for Multi-Agent Systems Interaction (article in journal, 2007) — Stefan Poslad

 High Variability Design for Software Agents: Extending Tropos (article in journal, 2007) — Loris Penserini, Anna Perini, Angelo Susi, John Mylopoulos

funding project

 AgentLink III — A Coordination Network for Agent-based Computing (01/01/2004–31/01/2006)

companion publication for

 Specifying Protocols for Multi-Agent Systems Interaction (article in journal, 2007) — Stefan Poslad

 High Variability Design for Software Agents: Extending Tropos (article in journal, 2007) — Loris Penserini, Anna Perini, Angelo Susi, John Mylopoulos

 A Framework for Web Service Negotiation (article in journal, 2007) — Shamimabi Paurobally, Valentina Tamma, Michael Wooldridge

 Introduction to the Special Issue: The AgentLink III Technical Forums (editorial/introduction/preface, 2007) — Paolo Petta, Andrea Omicini, Terry R. Payne, Peter McBurney