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In this chapter, we present several different approaches for distributed reasoning in AmI environments and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of these systems.

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Viterbo, J., Endler, M. (2012). Related Work. In: Decentralized Reasoning in Ambient Intelligence. SpringerBriefs in Computer Science. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4168-6_3

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