Bringing Common-Sense to Ambient Intelligence Environments

Applications for Ambient Intelligence environments tend to focus their endeavours in anticipating user actions and needs. Neverthe- less, not only users should be considered but also the environment itself, as a constituent part of the ambient system. When it comes down to it, this issue is left behind in most solutions presented to date. In this regard, extending the user-centered view, in order to encompass the sys- tem services and main intentions, arises as a key requirement towards real Ambient Intelligence.

The lack of self-managed systems is not accidental, but _nds its roots in the complexity of the reasoning and inference processes. Although there is wide range of available tools supporting these processes, the incapability to acquire the appropriate knowledge is revealed as the main shortcoming found when trying to achieve autonomous and intelligent system behaviour.

This paper proposes the combination of BDI agents and common-sense reasoning to handle the dynamism, ambiguity, and uncertainty of ambi- ent intelligence. It should be noticed that the middleware framework is an essential component of the system, since it provides the groundings for the multi-agent system and for the reasoning and decision making support.

Speaker's Information

Francisco Moya received his MS and PhD degrees in Telecommunication Engineering from the Technical University of Madrid (UPM), Spain, in 1996 and 2003 respectively.  In 1999 he joined the Computer Architecture and Networks group at the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM) where he currently works as an Associate Professor.  His research interests include a wide variety of problems related to heterogeneous distributed systems and networks, electronic design automation, and its applications to large-scale domotics and systems-on-chip design.

Authors' Info:

Maria J. Santofimia, Francisco Moya, Felix J. Villanueva, David Villa, and Juan C. Lopez

Computer Architecture and Networks Group,
School of Computer Science,
University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain