The Intelligence of Intelligent Environments
As Ambient Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence evolve, the
possibilities of their synergy become wider. Focusing on Intelligent
Environments, and with particular stress on personal environments, this
contribution raises a question over what type of Intelligence should be
provided to the environments in which people construct their lives.
Using Minsky’s six-level model of mind to categorize intelligence, this
paper defends a limited intelligence of the environment, in benefit of a
stronger human control. For doing so, it proposes and describes a
multi-agent architecture and a rule-based programming language for users to
program the instinctive reactions of their environments. The proposed
mechanism supports expression and management of preferences in a multi?user
environment, allowing the translation of the natural human hierarchies of
coordination into the Intelligent Environment domain. The proposed system
has been developed and tested in various real environments.
Bio
Xavier Alamán, PhD. Computer Science (Universidad Complutense de Madrid - 1993), MSc.
Artificial Intelligence (Univ. California Los Angeles - 1990), MSc. Computer
Science (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid - 1987), MSc. Physics
(Universidad Complutense de Madrid - 1985).
He served as the Dean of the School of Engineering, Universidad Autónoma de
Madrid (2004-2008), where he got the tenure in 1998, as professor of
Computer Science. He previously was an IBM researcher for 7 years.
His research interests include Ambient Intelligence, Knowledge Management
cooperative tools, and multimedia systems. He has been main researcher in
several R&D projects in these areas, and he has more that 50 publications in
journals, books and conferences.