A multi-agent architecture for distributed services and applications
Juan M. Corchado, Dante I. Tapia, Javier Bajo · 2009
Ambient Intelligence has acquired great importance in recent years and requires the development of new innovative solutions. This paper presents a novel architecture which facilitates the integration of multi-agent systems, distributed services and applications to optimize the construction of Ambient Intelligence environments. The architecture proposes a new and easier method to develop distributed intelligent ubiquitous systems, where applications and services can communicate in a distributed way with intelligent agents, even from mobile devices, independent of time and location restrictions. The core of the architecture is a group of deliberative agents acting as controllers and administrators for all applications and services. This approach provides the systems with a higher ability to recover from errors and a better flexibility to change their behaviour at execution time. The architecture is founded on the Ambient Intelligence paradigm. A distributed multi-agent system has been developed to test this architecture. This system is aimed to improve health care and assistance to dependent persons in geriatric residences, and the preliminary results are presented in this paper.