Integrating hardware agents into an enhanced multi-agent architecture for Ambient Intelligence systems

  • Authors:

  • Dante I. Tapia;Juan A. Fraile;Sara RodríGuez;Ricardo S. Alonso;Juan M. Corchado

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Computers and Automation, University of Salamanca, Plaza de la Merced s/n, 37008 Salamanca, Spain;Faculty of Informatics, Pontifical University of Salamanca, Compañía, 5, 37002 Salamanca, Spain;Department of Computers and Automation, University of Salamanca, Plaza de la Merced s/n, 37008 Salamanca, Spain;Department of Computers and Automation, University of Salamanca, Plaza de la Merced s/n, 37008 Salamanca, Spain;Department of Computers and Automation, University of Salamanca, Plaza de la Merced s/n, 37008 Salamanca, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Information Sciences: an International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Ambient Intelligence (AmI) systems require the integration of complex and innovative solutions. In this sense, agents and multi-agent systems have characteristics such as autonomy, reasoning, reactivity, social abilities and pro-activity which make them appropriate for developing distributed systems based on Ambient Intelligence. In addition, the use of context-aware technologies is an essential aspect in these developments in order to perceive stimuli from the context and react to it autonomously. This paper presents the integration of the Hardware-Embedded Reactive Agents (HERA) Platform into the Flexible and User Services Oriented Multi-agent Architecture (FUSION@), a multi-agent architecture for developing AmI systems that integrates intelligent agents with a service-oriented architecture approach. Because of this integration, FUSION@ has the ability to manage both software and hardware agents by using self-adaptable heterogeneous wireless sensor networks. Preliminary results presented in this paper demonstrate the feasibility of FUSION@ as a future alternative for developing Ambient Intelligence systems where users and systems can use both software and hardware agents in a transparent way, achieving a higher level of ubiquitous computing and communication.