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Agent-Based Management of Responsive Environments

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Responsive environments are physical surroundings whose components change their behaviour to accommodate the presence of people as well as other components. We describe a means to manage such responsive environments whereby each component is dynamically assigned a software agent – these are autonomous and reactive/proactive programs that communicate via message-passing. Arbitrary functionalities can be encoded in such agents, reflecting the capabilities of the components they represent, as well as extending them. Ours is a flexible and scalable approach allowing the gradual population of an environment with physical devices and their corresponding agents.

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  1. Dept of Computer Science, Univ of São Paulo, 05504-090, São Paulo, Brazil

    Flávio Soares Corrêa da Silva

  2. Dept of Computing Science, Univ of Aberdeen, AB24 3UE, Aberdeen, UK

    Wamberto W. Vasconcelos

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da Silva, F.S.C., Vasconcelos, W.W. (2005). Agent-Based Management of Responsive Environments. In: Bandini, S., Manzoni, S. (eds) AI*IA 2005: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. AI*IA 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3673. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11558590_23

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