Spatial Tuples: Augmenting Reality with Tuples


Alessandro Ricci, Mirko Viroli, Andrea Omicini, Stefano Mariani, Angelo Croatti, Danilo Pianini

Expert Systems 35(5)
October 2018

We introduce Spatial Tuples, an extension of the basic tuple-based model for distributed multi-agent system coordination where (i) tuples are conceptually placed in regions of the physical world and possibly move anchored to a mobile computational device, (ii) the behaviour of standard Linda coordination primitives is extended so as to depend on the spatial properties of the coordinating agents, tuples, and the topology of space, and (iii) the tuple space can be conceived as a virtual layer augmenting physical reality. Motivated by the needs of mobile augmented-reality applications, Spatial Tuples explicitly aims at supporting space-aware and space-based coordination in agent-based pervasive computing scenarios. This paper presents the coordination model, its formalisation as a process algebra, a library of patterns of coordination it enables, and a discussion of application scenarios, challenges, and open issues for future works.
(keywords) Artificial intelligence, coordination, pervasive computing, spatial computing, software engineering

Journals & Series

Publication

— authors

— editors

David Camacho, Paulo Novais

— status

published

— sort

article in journal

— publication date

October 2018

— journal

Expert Systems

— volume

35

— issue

5

URLs

original page

identifiers

— DOI

10.1111/exsy.12273

— DBLP

journals/es/RicciVOMCP18

— IRIS

11585/646034

— Scholar

15432439871249761138

— Scopus

2-s2.0-85045836760

— WoS / ISI

000446560700003

— print ISSN

0266-4720

notes

— note

Special Issue: New trends and innovations in intelligent distributed computing

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