International Workshop on Massively Multi-Agent Systems (2004.12. 10-11)

Mobile Agents for Ambient Intelligence

Ichiro Satoh

National Institute of Informatics

A general-purpose framework for ambient intelligences is presented as a new application of mobile software agent technology. The framework provides people, places, and things with computational functionalities to assist and annotate them. By using location sensing systems, the framework can dynamically deploy mobile agents at appropriate computers according to changes in the location of the physical entities that they are bound to. It enables users to directly access their personalized services from stationary computing devices in the environment or location-based services from their portble computing devices, even when they move.