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Mobile Agents for Service Personalization in Smart Environments

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2008, Journal of Networks

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Service personalization is an important goal for any smart environment. Comfort systems may be adjusted in an automatic way when a given user is present, and multimedia devices may offer a music or movie catalog with favorite contents or may even pick one of them for the user. To achieve this goal, we propose a Service Oriented Architecture implementation based on multiagent systems. We specially take advantage of the mobility features of software agents. In particular, we have developed a hierarchical, agent-based solution intended to be applicable to different smart space scenarios, ranging from small environments, like smart homes or smart offices, to large smart spaces like cities. In this paper we describe the global architecture and focus on our approach to service personalization using mobile agents that follow the users as they move through different smart spaces.

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  20. Ivan Marsa-Maestre is a PhD candidate at the University of Alcala. His research interests include agent-based systems, smart environments and mobile agent security. He received his MSE in communications engineering from the University of Alcalá. Contact him at the Department of Automatica at the University of Alcala, Edificio Politecnico, Ctra N-II, Km 32, 28871, Alcala de Henares, Madrid, Spain; ivan.marsa@uah.es Miguel A. Lopez-Carmona is an associated professor of Electronics Engineering at the University of Alcala. His interests are in the theory and practice of agent-based computing in e-markets. He received his PhD on Telecommunication Engi- neering from the University of Alcala. Contact him at Edificio Politecnico, Ctra N-II, Km 32, 28871, Alcala de Henares, Madrid, Spain; miguelangel.lopez@uah.es Juan R. Velasco is an associated professor of Telematics Engineering at the University of Alcala, where is the coordi- nator of the Telematics Services Engineering Research Group. His interest is focused on agent-based services personalization. He received his PhD on Telecommunication Engineering from Technical University of Madrid. He is member of the IEEE and the Computer Society. Contact him at Edificio Politecnico, Ctra N-II, Km 32, 28871, Alcala de Henares, Madrid, Spain; juanramon.velasco@uah.es Andres Navarro is a PhD candidate at the University of Alcala. His research interests include agent-based systems, ad- hoc networking and routing in ad-hoc networks. He received his MSE in communications engineering from the University of Alcala. Contact him at the Department of Automatica at the University of Alcala, Edificio Politecnico, Ctra N-II, Km 32, 28871, Alcala de Henares, Madrid, Spain; andres@aut.uah.es

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