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An Intelligent Agent Architecture for Smart Environments

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This paper proposes an architecture for agents that are in charge of handling a given environment in an Ambient Intelligence context, ensuring suitable contextualized and personalized support to the user’s actions, adaptivity to the user’s peculiarities and to changes over time, and automated management of the environment itself. Functionality involves multi-strategy reasoning and learning, workflow management and service composition. In Multi-Agent Systems, different types of agents may implement different parts of this architecture.

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This work was partially funded by the Italian PON 2007-2013 project PON02_00563_3489339 ‘Puglia@Service’.

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Ferilli, S., De Carolis, B., Redavid, D. (2015). An Intelligent Agent Architecture for Smart Environments. In: Esposito, F., Pivert, O., Hacid, MS., Rás, Z., Ferilli, S. (eds) Foundations of Intelligent Systems. ISMIS 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9384. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25252-0_35

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