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An Approach to Developing an Agent Space to Support Users’ Activities

Authors:
Kenji Sugawara
Jean-Paul A. Barthès

Keywords: multi-agent system; personal assistant; agent platform; agent space

Abstract:
Information and communication technology and ubiquitous technology allowed developing smart services for supporting users in their daily life. However, users experience great difficulties for finding rapidly the information they need when they need it, essentially because the current information systems seems to be based on a system-centric approach. In this paper, we discuss a new approach centered on users’ requests, using an Agent Space that contains Personal Agents, Social Agents and a Mediation Agent. We distinguish between Real Space, the space in which the user lives and Digital Space, the space containing social information. A personal agent interacts with a user to recognize the user’s activity in real life and a social agent interacts with objects in Real Space and with social information data in Digital Space. A Mediation Agent saves social information according to its role and distributes it to all interested agents. The agents are designed to run on the OMAS platform, a distributed multi-agent platform

Pages: 84 to 90

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012

Publication date: November 18, 2012

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3492

ISBN: 978-1-61208-232-5

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Dates: from November 18, 2012 to November 23, 2012