Axel Burkle, Fraunhofer Institute for Information and Data Processing, Germany
Wilmuth Muller, Fraunhofer Institute for Information and Data Processing, Germany
Uwe Pfirrmann, Fraunhofer Institute for Information and Data Processing, Germany
Manfred Schenk, Fraunhofer Institute for Information and Data Processing, Germany
In this paper we present an agent-based infrastructure, which provides integration and collaboration of autonomous, context-aware services in a heterogenous environment. Special consideration is given to the support for simultaneous service combination and coordination, a plug-in mechanism to enable distributed development and service composition, and the FIPA compliant implementation of the inter-agent communication using a well defined communication ontology. Furthermore, we give an example of the architecture's ability to support the cooperation of multiple services in a meeting scenario using an intelligent connector service and a semantic web oriented travel service.
Citation:
Axel Burkle, Wilmuth Muller, Uwe Pfirrmann, Manfred Schenk, Nikolaos Dimakis, John Soldatos, Lazaros Polymenakos, "An Agent-Based Architecture for Context-Aware Services Supporting Human Interaction," wi-iatw, pp.146-152, 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Workshops, 2006