Multiagent Technology Solutions for
Planning in Ambient Intelligence
Nicola Gatti, Francesco Amigoni, Marco Rolando
{ngatti, amigoni}@elet.polimi.it, [email protected]
DEI, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, Milano, 20133, Italy
Application Scenario
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Domotic Agency Paradigm
Agent =
OSA (Operative Semi-Agent)
+
CSA (Cooperative SA)
Majordomo
CSA
OSA
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Domotic Agency
Planning Devices’ Activities [Amigoni et al., T-SMC-A
2005]
CSA 4
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Majordomo
?
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CSA 3
CSA 1
CSA 2
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Employing Agent Technologies
• Protocols:
• FIPA interaction protocols
• Ontologies:
• RDF
• Software platform:
• JADE/LEAP
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Technological Open Issues
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• JADE/LEAP is not fully appropriate to develop the whole system
• The operative semi-agent of each device needs to run on the
device
• A JVM must run on each device, but computationally light devices
cannot support JVM
• A LEAP platform must run on each device, but inter-platform
communication is supported only on TCP/IP protocol (and not, e.g.,
on Bluetooth)
• The cooperative semi-agent of each device needs to move from
the device to a platform with high computational capabilities
• CSA’s classes need to be sent from the device to the platform by
LEAP, but JVM for mobile devices does not support reflection
• It is unreasonable that platforms have the classes of all the possible
CSAs
• As a result, JADE/LEAP must be improved to address such issues
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Our Improvements
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Experimental Setting and Result
agents
(PC)
mobile
devices
response
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1
1.01s
8
2
2.70s
16
4
3.50s
12
8
3.52s
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Conclusions and Future Works
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• Our contributions
• Development of a platform exploiting current multiagent
technologies for planning in Ambient Intelligence
• Stretching of current technologies to address mobile devices
• Promising experimental evaluation in simple case studies
• In future
• We will experimentally evaluate our proposal in concrete
settings
• We will improve efficiency in the planning algorithm
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