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Environment Support to the Management of Context Awareness Information

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Engineering Environment-Mediated Multi-Agent Systems (EEMMAS 2007)

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Collaborative Ubiquitous Environments (CUEs) are environments supporting collaboration among persons in a ubiquitous computing setting. This paper shows how results of the research in the Multi–Agent System (MAS) area, and in particular on MAS environments, can be used to model, design and engineer CUEs, with specific reference to the management of context–awareness information. The CUE reference scenario will be introduced, then the Multilayered Multi–Agent Situated System model will be briefly described and applied to represent and to manage several types of awareness information (both physical and logical contextual information). Finally, the paper introduces a prototypal framework based on DJess supporting the definition and management of MMASS based CUEs.

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  1. Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication, University of Milan–Bicocca, Viale Sarca 336, U14 Building, 20126, Milano, Italy

    Marco P. Locatelli & Giuseppe Vizzari

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Locatelli, M.P., Vizzari, G. (2008). Environment Support to the Management of Context Awareness Information. In: Weyns, D., Brueckner, S.A., Demazeau, Y. (eds) Engineering Environment-Mediated Multi-Agent Systems. EEMMAS 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5049. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85029-8_14

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