A Higher-order Agent Model with Contextual Management for Ambient Systems

Ahmed Chawki Chaouche (1, 2) , Amal El Fallah-Seghrouchni (1) , Jean-Michel Ilié (3) , Djamel Eddine Saidouni (2)

1 SMA - Systèmes Multi-Agents
2 CFSC
3 MoVe - Modélisation et Vérification

This paper presents a concrete software architecture dedicated to ambient intelligence (AmI) features and requirements. The proposed behavioral model, called Higher-order Agent (HoA) captures the evolution of the mental representation of the agent and the one of its plan simultaneously. Plan expressions are written and composed using a formal algebraic language, namely AgLOTOS, so that plans are built automatically and on the fly, as a system of concurrent processes. Based on a specific semantics, a guidance service is also proposed to assist the agent in its execution. Moreover due to the specific structure of AgLOTOS expressions, the update of sub-plans is realized automatically accordingly to the revising of intentions, hence maintaining the consistency of the agent.

Mots clés: Ambient intelligence; language and semantics; Dynamical plan revising; BDI agent; Planning consistency and guidance; Formal planning

Domaines: Informatique ubiquitaire; Système multi-agents [cs.MA]; Modélisation et simulation

Ahmed Chawki Chaouche, Amal El Fallah-Seghrouchni, Jean-Michel Ilié, Djamel Eddine Saidouni. A Higher-order Agent Model with Contextual Management for Ambient Systems. Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence XVI, 2014, 8780, pp.146-169. ⟨10.1007/978-3-662-44871-7_6⟩. ⟨hal-01070775⟩