From Objects to Agents, and Back to Smart Objects: Software Agents for Intelligent Internet of Things (IoT) Systems

Daniel-Costel Bouleanu; Marco Loaiza; Claudio Savaglio; Costin Bădică; Raffaele Gravina; Giancarlo Fortino

doi:10.1007/978-3-032-22940-3_13

From Objects to Agents, and Back to Smart Objects: Software Agents for Intelligent Internet of Things (IoT) Systems

Daniel-Costel Bouleanu, Marco Loaiza, Claudio Savaglio, Costin Bădică, Raffaele Gravina, Giancarlo Fortino

Viviana Mascardi, Andrea Omicini (a cura di)

The Agents Journey: Twenty-Five Years of Multi-agent Systems, capitolo 13, pp. 340–365

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (State-of-the-Art Survey) 16395

Springer Nature Switzerland

aprile 2026

The chapter delves into the Internet of Things (IoT) and Agent-based Computing (ABC) duo. From the first sensor networks to the current IoT systems (e.g. smart cities, smart factories, smart homes), the ABC has been widely exploited to make devices truly “smart objects” by providing them with different degrees of autonomy, cognitivity, sociality and proactiveness. With particular, though not exclusive, focus on contributions from Workshop on Objects and Agents (WOA), in the following, we discuss how the ABC enables the development of advanced IoT systems, from the design to the implementation and simulation phases. Then, we present application examples, technologies and IoT platforms that make use of agents and, finally, we discuss future directions of an “agentified” IoT in the light of the emerging computing continuum.

parole chiave Multi-agent systems, IoT, Smart-Objects, Intelligent Systems

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