Intelligent agents meet the semantic Web in smart spaces

Author

Chen, Harry ; Finin, Tim ; Joshi, Anupam ; Kagal, Lalana ; Perich, Filip ; Chakraborty, Dipanjan

Author_Institution

Maryland Univ., Baltimore, MD, USA

Volume

8

Issue

6

fYear

2004

Firstpage

69

Lastpage

79

Abstract

A new smart meeting room system called EasyMeeting explores the use of multi-agent systems, Semantic Web ontologies, reasoning, and declarative policies for security and privacy. Building on an earlier pervasive computing system, EasyMeeting provides relevant services and information to meeting participants based on their situational needs. The system also exploits the context-aware support provided by the Context Broker Architecture (Cobra). Cobra´s intelligent broker agent maintains a shared context model for all computing entities in the space and enforces user-defined privacy policies.

Keywords

data privacy; distributed object management; middleware; multi-agent systems; ontologies (artificial intelligence); semantic Web; ubiquitous computing; Cobra; EasyMeeting; context broker architecture; context-aware support; declarative policy; intelligent agent; multiagent system; pervasive computing system; reasoning; semantic Web; semantic Web ontology; shared context model; smart meeting room system; user security; user-defined privacy policy; Buildings; Computer architecture; Context modeling; Information security; Intelligent agent; Multiagent systems; Ontologies; Pervasive computing; Privacy; Semantic Web; 65; Semantic web; intelligent agents; multi-agent systems; smart rooms;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Internet Computing, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7801

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MIC.2004.66

Filename

1355924