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CONSORTS: A Multiagent Architecture for Service Coordination in Ubiquitous Computing

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Multi-Agent for Mass User Support (MAMUS 2003)

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One of the fundamental issues of Ubiquitous Computing is concerned with the coordination gaps between devices, services, and users. When numerous devices, various information services, and users who have different intentions are physically co-located in a environment, how can we coordinate the services and devices to assist a particular user in receiving a particular service so as to maximize the user’s’ satisfaction there? In order to solve this human-centered service coordination issue, we have been developing a multiagent architecture for Ubiquitous Computing, called CONSORTS (Coordination System of Real world Transaction Services). In this paper, we first outline some coordination gaps in Ubiquitous Computing, and describe three design concepts of the CONSORTS to bridge the gaps:physically-grounding, cognitive resource managements, andlocation-mediated service coordination. Then, we show the outline of CONSORTS architecture, and two applications of CONSORTS, context-aware information assist systems in museums and wireless-LAN based location system on AgentCities Networks.

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  1. Cyber Assist Research Center (CARC), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Aomi 2-41-6, Koto-ku, Tokyo, 135-0064, Japan

    Akio Sashima, Noriaki Izumi & Koichi Kurumatani

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  1. CREST, JST, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), 2-41-6, Aomi, 135-0064, Koto, Tokyo, Japan

    Koichi Kurumatani

  2. AI-ECON Research Center, Department of Economics, National Chengchi University, Taipei, 11623, Taiwan

    Shu-Heng Chen

  3. Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University,  

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Sashima, A., Izumi, N., Kurumatani, K. (2004). CONSORTS: A Multiagent Architecture for Service Coordination in Ubiquitous Computing. In: Kurumatani, K., Chen, SH., Ohuchi, A. (eds) Multi-Agent for Mass User Support. MAMUS 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3012. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24666-4_12

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