The LAICA Project: An ad-hoc middleware to support Ambient Intelligence

摘要

Abstract. Our everyday environments are going to be disseminated of devices and sensors that exhibit some degree of autonomynand that collaborate to support users in their activities. This envisions a not-so-far future called “Ambient Intelligence”, i.e.,nenvironments that show a certain degree of intelligence. Useful abstractions for Ambient Intelligence are represented bynsoftware agents, since they are autonomous and capable of acting on behalf of their owners. In the context of the LAICA projectnwe have exploited the agent paradigm to model devices and sensors, and have developed an ad-hoc middleware to orchestratenall the involved components. This paper discusses the adoption of agents in Ambient Intelligence, and explains the design andnimplementation of the middleware.