Smart Environments as Agent Workspaces


Andrea Omicini, Alessandro Ricci, Giuseppe Vizzari

Ubiquitous Computing and Communication Journal CPE - Special Issue, pages 95-104
June 2008

The pervasive computing scenario provides a diffused presence of technological appliances distributed in the environment and interacting by means of wired or wireless networks. These computational units should be able to fruitfully exploit interactions with other components (e.g. information sources) in order to supply context aware services and support advanced forms of interaction among users. The aim of this paper is to show how models and frameworks for Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) can be exploited to design and implement pervasive computing systems, focusing on the Agent and Artifact (A&A) approach. Artifacts are a conceptual, formal and computational framework supporting the realization of function-oriented elements of a MAS. After a description of a scenario, the paper briefly introduces the A&A framework and shows how it can be used to define an infrastructure supporting complex interaction schemes provided by the scenario.

(keywords) MAS environments, context-awareness

Journals & Series

Publication

— authors

Andrea Omicini, Alessandro Ricci, Giuseppe Vizzari

— editors

Gabriele Kostis, Manfred Bortenschlager, Marco Mamei

— status

published

— sort

article in journal

— publication date

June 2008

— journal

Ubiquitous Computing and Communication Journal

— volume

CPE - Special Issue

— pages

95-104

URLs

original page  |  original PDF

identifiers

— IRIS

11585/62577

— print ISSN

1992-4608

— online ISSN

1992-8424

files

Open Access PDF

notes

— note

Special Issue on Coordination in Pervasive Environments

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