%0 Journal Article %1 DimakisSoldatosEtAl10aamas %A Dimakis, Nikolaos %A Soldatos, John %A Polymenakos, Lazaros %A Bürkle, Axel %A Pfirrmann, Uwe %A Sutschet, Gerhard %D 2010 %J Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems %K v1500 springer paper embedded ai middleware software agent user adaptive zzz.ami %N 1 %P 36-68 %R 10.1007/s10458-009-9101-1 %T Agent-based Architectural Framework Enhancing Configurability, Autonomy and Scalability of Context-aware Pervasive Services %V 21 %X Multi-agent software architectures have gained in popularity due to their beneficial behavior in designing and implementing sophisticated applications. However, current approaches in implementing such architectures have led to application-specific, non-scalable implementations which limit the reusablity and improvement of the whole architecture. Moreover, these attempts lack features to enhance the user experience, thus slowing the adoption of the resulting services. In this paper we describe a fully-fledged multi-agent architecture covering a large variety of preferred features including capabilities of plugging ubiquitous services, servicing mobile users, interconnecting remote similar architectures and interfacing with advanced software components such as knowledge bases. This framework exploits a wide-range of context-aware components making it essentially context-aware, allowing for the development of ubiquitous context-aware human-centric services, which are the focus of our research (see CHIL project). To illustrate the flexibility of this architectural framework, we present four services which were built using this architectural paradigm by different development teams and elaborate on their overall behavior.

@article{DimakisSoldatosEtAl10aamas, abstract = {Multi-agent software architectures have gained in popularity due to their beneficial behavior in designing and implementing sophisticated applications. However, current approaches in implementing such architectures have led to application-specific, non-scalable implementations which limit the reusablity and improvement of the whole architecture. Moreover, these attempts lack features to enhance the user experience, thus slowing the adoption of the resulting services. In this paper we describe a fully-fledged multi-agent architecture covering a large variety of preferred features including capabilities of plugging ubiquitous services, servicing mobile users, interconnecting remote similar architectures and interfacing with advanced software components such as knowledge bases. This framework exploits a wide-range of context-aware components making it essentially context-aware, allowing for the development of ubiquitous context-aware human-centric services, which are the focus of our research (see CHIL project). To illustrate the flexibility of this architectural framework, we present four services which were built using this architectural paradigm by different development teams and elaborate on their overall behavior.}, added-at = {2012-05-30T10:45:08.000+0200}, author = {Dimakis, Nikolaos and Soldatos, John and Polymenakos, Lazaros and B\"{u}rkle, Axel and Pfirrmann, Uwe and Sutschet, Gerhard}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2eb01f2d6dd74f89dd77328242a049be8/flint63}, doi = {10.1007/s10458-009-9101-1}, file = {SpringerLink:2010/DimakisSoldatosEtAl10aamas.pdf:PDF}, groups = {public}, interhash = {1c8628460d6db19ec59426da49549c25}, intrahash = {eb01f2d6dd74f89dd77328242a049be8}, issn = {1387-2532}, journal = {Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems}, keywords = {v1500 springer paper embedded ai middleware software agent user adaptive zzz.ami}, month = {#jul#}, number = 1, pages = {36-68}, timestamp = {2018-04-16T11:59:36.000+0200}, title = {Agent-based Architectural Framework Enhancing Configurability, Autonomy and Scalability of Context-aware Pervasive Services}, username = {flint63}, volume = 21, year = 2010 }