MANAGING RESPONSIVE ENVIRONMENTS WITH SOFTWARE AGENTS

  • Authors:
  • Flavio Soares Correa da Silva;Wamberto Weber Vasconcelos

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil;Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • Applied Artificial Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Responsive environments are physical surroundings whose components change their behavior to accommodate the presence of people as well as other components. We describe a means to manage responsive environments whereby each component is dynamically assigned a software agent. Software agents are autonomous and reactive/proactive programs that communicate via message-passing. Arbitrary functionalities can be encoded in such agents, reflecting the capabilities of the components they represent, as well as extending them. Ours is a flexible and scalable approach allowing the gradual population of environments with physical devices and their agents.