Gulliver's Genie: agency, mobility, adaptivity

Abstract

The challenge presented by ambient intelligence and pervasive computing is an environment within which computing artifacts become seamlessly merged into our surroundings, whereby interaction with such artifacts becomes intuitive and unobtrusive, where the devices become sensitive to the presence of people and are imbued with the ability to anticipate and service the individual needs of each and every user. In this paper, we present Gulliver's Genie, an archetypical ubiquitous computing application. Gulliver's Genie embraces three central constructs; those of agency, mobility and adaptivity. The architecture adopts a Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) metaphor whereby agents manage and maintain a context within which mobile users exist and, based upon this context, seeks to adapt and personalize content based upon perceived individual user needs. Agents are mobile and may migrate to or from environmental artifacts reflecting their computational constraints.

Matching points of interest with user context: an ANN approach

“…The server, using a precaching strategy, allows the user to view the presentations (information) about the POIs on his/her smart phone. While the mobile phone user is driving or walking toward a certain location, the user's destination is predicted and the related data are downloaded to the mobile device before the user's arrival at the destination [3,7,13]. …”

Towards Pervasive Intelligence: Reflections on the Evolution of the Agent Factory Framework

“…At the start of the millennium, work began to focus on the possibility of using Agent Factory for the creation of mobile context sensitive applications, such as Guilliver's Gennie [38]. A new Java version of the system was developed.…”

“…3(a) The platform has been used for the development of applications in several disparate domains, including E-Commerce [26], Ubiquitous Computing [36], Mobile Computing [38], Robotics [19], Wireless Sensor Networks [37], and Mixed Reality [17].…”

Pinpointing Tourism Information onto Mobile Maps — A Light-Weight Approach

“…Furthermore, and most important, flexibility should be ensured so that the mobile tourist guide can be deployed also in other tourism regions with little effort. Several mobile tourist guides have already been developed (Anegg et al 2002;Cheverst et al 2002;Garzotto et al 2004;O'Grady & O'Hare, 2004;Hinze & Voisard, 2003;Hofer et al 2003;Kamar, 2003;Krösche et al 2004;Poslad et al 2001; van Setten et al 2004). However, most of them adhere to a heavy-weight approach.…”

“…LoL@ does not seem to provide a configuration mechanism of inter-linking GIS and TIS information in a dynamic manner. Gulliver's Genie (O'Grady & O'Hare, 2004) is a prototype stemming from the area of artificial intelligence and agent systems focusing on intelligent content delivery to tourists in a proactive manner. Gulliver's Genie presents tourists a map with their current position and personalized multi-media content about cultural attractions.…”