Authors: da Silva, Flavio Soares Correa¹; Vasconcelos, Wamberto Weber²

Source: Applied Artificial Intelligence, Volume 21, Numbers 4-5, April 2007 , pp. 469-488(20)

Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd

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.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08839510701253682

Affiliations: 1: Department of Computer Science, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil 2: Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Publication date: 2007-04-01

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