HoCa Home Care Multi-agent Architecture

摘要

This paper presents a Hybrid Multi-Agent Architecture for the controland supervision of dependent environments, based on an Ambient Intelligence model.HoCa architecture incorporates a management system of alerts based on SMS andMMS technologies, and an automated identification, localization, and movement con-trol system based on Java Card and RFID technologies. HoCa is independent from theprogramming language and operating system in that it is executable. The core of thearchitecture is formed by both deliberative agents and reactive agents that interact tooffer efficient services. The architecture has been tested in a real environment and theresults obtained are presented in this paper.