MANAGING RESPONSIVE ENVIRONMENTS WITH SOFTWARE AGENTS
Flávio Soares Corrêa da Silva, Wamberto Weber Vasconcelos · Applied Artificial Intelligence · 2007
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.