Towards an Intelligent User-Oriented Middleware for Opportunistic Composition of Services in Ambient Spaces

Walid Younes (1) , Sylvie Trouilhet (1, 2) , Françoise Adreit (1, 3) , Jean-Paul Arcangeli (1, 2)

1 IRIT-SMAC - Systèmes Multi-Agents Coopératifs
2 UT3 - Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier
3 UT2J - Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès

Ambient and mobile systems consist of networked devices and software components surrounding human users and providing services. From the services present in the environment, other services can be composed opportunistically and automatically by an intelligent system and proposed to the user. This article first presents an illustrative use case, then explores the requirements and formulates related research questions. Next, it describes our approach aimed at answering the requirements, based on distributed artificial intelligence and multi-agent systems. It reports on the development of a prototype solution, and analyzes the current status of our work towards the different research questions that we have identified.

Mots clés: Learning; Connected Objects; Software Components; Service Composition; Ambient Intelligence; Multi-Agent Systems; Self-Organization; Emergence

Domaines: Informatique ubiquitaire; Intelligence artificielle [cs.AI]; Système multi-agents [cs.MA]; Génie logiciel [cs.SE]

Walid Younes, Sylvie Trouilhet, Françoise Adreit, Jean-Paul Arcangeli. Towards an Intelligent User-Oriented Middleware for Opportunistic Composition of Services in Ambient Spaces. 5th Workshop on Middleware and Applications for the Internet of Things (M4IoT 2018), ACM; IFIP, Dec 2018, Rennes, France. pp.25-30, ⟨10.1145/3286719.3286725⟩. ⟨hal-02613455⟩