A Context-Aware Multi-Agent System for AmI Environments
Andrei Olaru, Adina Magda Florea · 2010
Ambient Intelligence, or AmI, is one of the priorities of current development in the ICT domain [DBS01]. Ambient Intelligence deals with assisting people in their day to day activities, by means of an integrated, ubiquitous electronic environment that is interconnected by a heavyduty network infrastructure and providing intelligent user interfaces. AmI will use a very large number of electronic devices that have different capabilities, different sizes and different performance, all of them interconnected by wireless or wired networks, working together and cooperating towards the resolution of tasks. By means of these devices, AmI will be sensitive to the environment and to the presence and state of people, and will be able to react to their needs and actions [RAS08, AM07, Sat01]. The final goal is to assist the user and take away the burden of repetitive, annoying activities, as well as helping people with disabilities to integrate better into the society and the urban environment. There are great challenges in the development of AmI, like advanced human-machine interfaces, knowledge representation, context-awareness, information management, security and privacy, device heterogeneity and many hardware-related requirements [Sat01, BCL05].