Arquitectura multiagente para entornos de Inteligencia Ambiental

[EN]Ambient Intelligence is an emerging multidisciplinary area that proposes new ways of interaction between people and technology, making it suised to the needs of individuals and the environment that surrounds them. Ambient Intelligence proposes three essential concepts: ubiquitous computing, ubiquitous communication and intelligent user interfaces. The signicance that Ambient Intelligence has acquired in recent years requires the development of a new innovative solutions. In this sense, the development of AmI-based software requires the creation of increasingly complex and flexible applications. For that reason, there is a tren toward the reusing of resources and sharing the same platform or architecture. This is due in some cases, the systems require similar funcionalities implemented as part of other systems, which are not always compatible with each other. This work presents a Flexible and User Oriented Multi-agent Architecture (FUSION). This is a new architecture that integrates intelligent agents with a services oriented approach to facilitate and optimize the development of AmI-based systems. FUSION defines a set of components that optimize the development of distributed, adaptable, ubiquitous and intelligent systems. This is accomplished by modelling the funcionalities of the systems and the agents as independent applications and services, which can communicate in a distributed way, regardless of restrictions of time and location. While the whole of society will benefit from the tecnological advances provided by the Ambient Intelligence, those most likely to benefit from these advances will be the elderly and people with disabilities, whose daily lives, with particular regard to health care, will be most enhanced. A case study has been defined to test the validity of FUSION. The case study consists in the development of ALZ-MAS, a multiagent system aimed at improving the care and assistance for elderly and people with disabilities, especially patients with Alzheimer's disease within geriatric residences.

Author

• Tapia Martínez, Dante I.

• Tesis y disertaciones académicas
• Universidad de Salamanca (España)
• Academic dissertations
• Inteligencia ambiental
• Ambient intelligence
• Software
• Informática
• Computer science

Identifier

hdl:10366/76358

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:gredos.usal.es:10366/76358