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This paper introduces the development of an infrastructure to study highly complex applications of Ambient Intelligence (AmI) which involve a large number of users. The key ideas about the development of a multi-agent based simulation (MABS) for such purposes, Ubik, are given. The paper also extrapolates effective technologies in the development of multi-agent systems (MAS) to the field of MABS. In particular, the basis for the use of forensic analysis as a method to assist the analysis, understanding and debugging of Ubik in particular and the general MABS are set up.
This research work is supported by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science in the scope of the Research Project TIN-2005-08501-C03-02 and by the Project “Análisis, Estudio y Desarrollo de Sistemas Inteligentes y Servicios Telemáticos” through the Fundación Séneca within the Program “Generación del Conocimiento Científico de Excelencia”.
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Serrano, E., Botia, J.A., Cadenas, J.M. (2009). Construction and Debugging of a Multi-Agent Based Simulation to Study Ambient Intelligence Applications. In: Cabestany, J., Sandoval, F., Prieto, A., Corchado, J.M. (eds) Bio-Inspired Systems: Computational and Ambient Intelligence. IWANN 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5517. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02478-8_136
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