ACAI: agent-based context-aware infrastructure for spontaneous applications

Khedr, Mohamed; Karmouch, Ahmed

doi:10.1016/j.jnca.2004.04.002

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“…The vision of people amalgamated with their surroundings in a spontaneous way created a new, context-aware era of human-computer interaction. Agent systems should be able to understand the current situation and act on that understanding (Khedr & Karmouch, 2005). Findings from the executive discussions and interviews revealed that the spontaneity attribute was perceived more desirable than proactivtiy.…”

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“…Analysis of executives" comments suggests two important value added attributes to autonomy: spontaneity and proactivity. Spontaneity -The "spontaneous" attribute is the capability of agents to perceive their environment and respond it spontaneously and autonomously (Wooldridge & Jennings, 1995;Khedr & Karmouch, 2005). An agent should be able to dynamically choose which actions to invoke and in what sequences, in response to the state of its environment (Liu, 1998).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Supporting decision making process with “ideal” software agents – What do business executives want?

Duan

Ong

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Expert Systems with Applications

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According to H. Simon"s (1977) decision making theory, intelligence is the first and most important phase in the decision making process. With the escalation of information resources available to business executives, it is becoming imperative to explore the potential and challenges of using agent-based systems to support the intelligence phase of decision-making. This research examines UK executives" perceptions of using agentbased support systems and the criteria for design and development of their "ideal" intelligent software agents.The study adopted an inductive approach using focus groups to generate a preliminary set of design criteria of "ideal" agents. It then followed a deductive approach using semi-structured interviews to validate and enhance the criteria. This qualitative research has generated unique insights into executives" perceptions of the design and use of agent-based support systems. The systemic content analysis of qualitative data led to the proposal and validation of design criteria at three levels. The findings revealed the most desirable criteria for agent based support systems from the end users" point view. The design criteria can be used not only to guide intelligent agent system design but also system evaluation.

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Supporting decision making process with “ideal” software agents – What do business executives want?

Duan

Ong

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Expert Systems with Applications

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“…Recently researchers have paid long due attention to context acquisition and utilization in various mobile platforms. Khedr et al apply agent-based approaches for building mobile context-aware platform using the network-level context [9]. Biegel and Cahill described a framework of Learning and Computing, Vol.…”

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“…Khedr et al apply agent-based approaches for building mobile context-aware platform using the network-level context [9]. Biegel and Cahill described a framework of utilizing environmental observance for context aware application development in ubiquitous computing [10].…”

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Skyguard: A Context-Aware Mobile Information System for Emergency Management

Nan¹

2015

IJMLC

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Abstract-Context awareness is one of the most critical components in building information systems because the systems use that to warrant the relevance of provided information and users' needs. Existing research work in context awareness mainly focused on analyzing either Internetbased web pages or user search keywords. There are works that develop and utilize context awareness in the domains of information system and emergency management, however these works have not specified a comprehensive framework and a clear workflow about how exactly the critical contexts are captured and utilized to produce more effective and relevant instructions. In this paper, we have reviewed the related works in the cross domains of context awareness, mobile technologies and emergency management. After identified the limitations of these works, we have proposed a mobile context-aware information system that utilizes mobile technologies and context awareness to provide relevant emergency instructions to public users. Based on this system, we also described case studies that have been conducted to validate this system. Our motivation of this work is to fill in the gap of using context awareness and mobile technology for more efficient and effective emergency management and also provide reference for similar applications in other domains.Index Terms-Emergency management, mobile information system, context awareness, mobile software, XML. I. INTRODUCTIONIn order to properly react to and manage any emergency situation, it is vital to provide up-to-date, relevant information to both public community and emergency management centers regardless of geographical and temporal differences. Emergency situation develops fast and dynamically. Only latest information can help decision makers prepare updated instructions and only most updated instructions can efficiently help people reach safe places and save their lives. Meanwhile people in emergency can often give very little attention to the received instructions, meaning only most relevant instructions for each individual can be effective in instructing her to escape from the emergency.However, at present, most of the applications are static, which means the process of date collection, analysis and reaction is based on traditional process and technology, such as telephone and even just words. It limits the effectiveness and efficiency of emergency management. Clearly in order to improve the timeliness of delivering emergency instructions, we need to embrace the new information technology in building the emergency management system, Manuscript received May 4, 2014; revised September 9, 2014. Nan Jing is with the School of Management, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150001, China (e-mail: jingnan@gmail.com).which ought to efficiently deliver the effective information to the people in need. In fact, this has been made possible by recent development of handheld devices and mobile software technologies, which have together profoundly transformed the way how people communicate multi-media inf...

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“…Although contexts are tacitly known by most people, they are normally hard to be identified and, therefore, not distinguishable for computing. In order to help the system developer in his task of norm contextualization, DynaCROM follows directions taken by research in context-aware applications that suggest top-down architectures for classifying contextual information [Khedr and Karmouch, 1995;Henricksen and Indulska, 2005]. DynaCROM defines that norm information should be classified in a MAS according to the following contexts: Environment, Organization, Role and Interaction, which are differentiated by the boundaries of their data (i.e., norms).…”

Section: Contextual Norm Classificationmentioning

confidence: 99%