Abstract
In Smart Environments computing systems are ubiquitous, intelligence pervades the space, and people’s situatedness in time and space is exploited to provide a contextualised, adaptive user experience.
Their socio-technical nature calls for skills, concepts, methodologies, technologies from diverse fields – AI, coordination, distributed systems, organisational sciences, etc. –, promoting a multi-paradigm perspective.
This work explores the Smart Environments context moving from two basic bricks: Butlers for Smart Spaces, a technology-neutral reference framework focused on users’ situatedness and interaction aspects; and Home Manager, a multi-paradigm, agent-based implementation platform for Smart Living contexts, particularly focused on the reasoning aspects.
For concreteness, we take a Smart Kitchen as our running example, discussing how it can be devised in Butlers for Smart Spaces and deployed on Home Manager, focusing on context reasoning and prediction aspects.
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Calegari, R., Denti, E. (2018). Context Reasoning and Prediction in Smart Environments: The Home Manager Case. In: De Pietro, G., Gallo, L., Howlett, R., Jain, L. (eds) Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services 2017. KES-IIMSS-18 2018. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 76. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59480-4_45
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