Engineering ambient intelligence systems using agent technology

Abstract

The HERA project, run by a consortium of researchers from academia and industry, applied the agent systems engineering methodology (ASEME) to develop a multi-agent system for a real-world application for ambient assisted living.services and applications to people: autonomy, distribution, adaptation, and responsiveness are key characteristics of AmI computing components. 2 Researchers working on the Home sERvices for specialised elderly Assisted living (HERA) project (w3.mi.parisdescartes. fr/hera), supported by the AAL Joint Programme (www.aal-europe.eu), built an AAL system to provide cost-effective specialized assisted living services for elderly people suffering from mild cognitive impairment (MCI), mild/moderate Alzheimer's disease (AD), and other diseases (diabetes, cardiovascular) with identified risk factors, aiming to significantly improve the quality of their home life and extend its duration. To address these needs, HERA provided the following main categories of services:• cognitive exercises, • passive communication,• pill and exercise reminders,• reality orientation (date and time), and E ngineering an ambient assisted living (AAL) information system using agent technology is a nontrivial task. 1 AAL systems combine the application domains of ambient intelligence (AmI) and home-based e-health. AmI refers to environments empowered with computing capability that deliver M u l t i -A g e n t S y S t e M S MAY/JuNE 2015 www.computer.org/intelligent Figure 4. The Personal Assistant (PA) role in the system roles model (SRM). The liveness property contains the formulas.

Agent abstractions for engineering IoT systems: A case study in smart healthcare

“…Other approaches suggest adopting a more standard SOA or objectoriented approach. Surprisingly, only a few proposals consider associating autonomous software agents to individual things [15], despite the fact goals to be pursued in autonomy may be associated to things, a feature that service-oriented approaches can hardly accommodate.…”

“…In addition, as already stated, some "things" make no sense as individual entities as far as the provisioning of specific services and applications is concerned, and are to be considered part of a group and be capable of providing their services as a coordinated group. This applies both to the cases in which a multitude of equivalent devices must be collectively exploited abstracting from the presence of the individuals [4], and to the cases in which the functionalities of the group complement with each other and needs to be orchestrated [15]. However, due to the dynamic and contextual nature of IoT scenario, traditional service-oriented orchestration methods, although necessary, are not enough to With these considerations in mind, in an effort of synthesizing from a variety of different proposals and of bringing in as needed agent-oriented concepts, we suggest the unifying abstractions of avatars and coalitions (See Figure 2).…”

Engineering IoT Systems Through Agent Abstractions: Smart Healthcare as a Case Study

“…Other approaches suggest adopting a more standard SOA or object-oriented approach. Surprisingly, only a few proposals consider associating autonomous software agents to individual things [27], despite the fact goals to be pursued in autonomy may be associated to things, a feature that service-oriented approaches can hardly accommodate.…”

“…In addition, as already stated, some "things" make no sense as individual entities as far as the provisioning of specific services and applications is concerned, and are to be considered part of a group and be capable of providing their services as a coordinated group. This applies both to the cases in which a multitude of equivalent devices must be collectively exploited abstracting from the presence of the individuals [6], and to the cases in which the functionalities of the group complement with each other and needs to be orchestrated [27]. However, due to the dynamic and contextual nature of IoT scenario, traditional service-oriented orchestration methods, although necessary, are not enough to With these considerations in mind, in an effort of synthesizing from a variety of different proposals and of bringing in as needed agent-oriented concepts, we suggest the unifying abstractions of avatars and coalitions (see Figure 1).…”

Demiourgos: Simulação Baseada em Agentes para Análise da Evolução de Camuflagem em Seres Vivos

“…Conforme apresentado, a abordagem de agentes possui uma ampla diversidade de aplicação com uma gama de modelos de múltiplos propósitos despertando interesse da comunidade científica [12,13,14,15]. No entanto, dentre os diversos usos da abordagem com agentes, não encontramos trabalhos que envolvam o estudo da evolução da camuflagem de seres vivos em um modelo presa-predador.…”