Agent societies and social networks for ubiquitous computing

Abstract

In ubiquitous computing environments, providing appropriate services and information to users at the right place in the right way is challenging for many reasons: different user interests, heterogeneous devices and services, dynamic networks, information overload, or differing privacy levels, for example. Agent technology is a paradigm expected to play an increasing role in complex computing environments, and due to the increasing popularity of social networking services, we expect to see the convergence of agent and social web technologies. The goal of this theme issue is to bring together state-of-the-art research contributions that examine the convergence of agent technologies and social networks for ubiquitous computing.

Theil utility based multi-device cooperation mechanism for service quality equilibrium in ubiquitous stub environments

“…With the rapid development and category diversification of network, large quantities of heterogeneous devices with different functions are springing up in the network edge and users' surroundings [1][2][3], which is called ubiquitous stub environments, e.g., a smart home system, PAN or vehicular networks. In ubiquitous stub environments, a distributed ubiquitous service is supposed to be completed by the cooperation among various devices [4][5][6][7].…”

SWEFT: Semantic Web Service Engine for Telecommunication – An Automatic Discovery and Composition through Genetic Approach

“…al., [9] provides in depth analysis of semantic Web service discovery, highlights the modern approaches, they have formed the semantic formalisms as the key, and they have used standards to perform a finding. For forming a model for semantic web service [26] discovery, they described the key factors and conditions used in agent-based computing. The proposed approach provides the research challenges to be focused for next-generation service discovery through dynamic multiagent systems in composite environments.…”