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A hierarchical, agent-based service oriented architecture for smart environments

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Service Oriented Architectures, which allow for the integration of different subsystems and of applications running on different devices and platforms, may be very suitable to solve the problem of service personalization in large smart environments like cities, where the number of potential users and potentially available services is rapidly growing. Taking this into account, we have designed an agent-based service oriented architecture for smart spaces. Two of the greatest challenges in the design of such a solution are providing effective device, service and context federation and composition mechanisms and handling user mobility. For the first challenge, we have designed a hierarchical architecture and developed a set of inheritance, aggregation and access mechanisms for devices, services and context. To handle user mobility, we have followed three different strategies, using stationary, mobile or nomadic agents. In this paper, we describe the main aspects of our architecture and perform an experimental evaluation to determine the advantages and drawbacks of the different strategies.

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  1. Departamento de Automatica, Universidad de Alcala, Madrid, Spain

    Ivan Marsa-Maestre, Miguel A. Lopez-Carmona & Juan R. Velasco

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Marsa-Maestre, I., Lopez-Carmona, M.A. & Velasco, J.R. A hierarchical, agent-based service oriented architecture for smart environments. SOCA 2, 167–185 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11761-008-0030-7

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