Hypermedia to connect them all: Autonomous hypermedia agents and socio‐technical interactions

Abstract

Current standardization efforts of the Web of Things provide a unique opportunity to integrate technologies from the research domain of multiagent systems and the human‐computer interaction field that could take us closer to creating intuitively usable distributed artificial intelligence. In this paper, we discuss what bridges are missing between these largely detached research communities: we propose to use the Hypermedia As The Engine Of Application State principle that is at the core of the Web architecture to underpin systems that integrate multiagent planning and acting with semantic technologies and with interoperable mixed reality interfaces. This should enable the creation of highly augmented environments in private as well as commercial and industrial environments where physical and digital things coexist and interact with one another.

WoT 2017

“…After the workshop, a subset of the workshop participants and organizers continued their discussions on the future of the Web of Things in the context of Mixed Reality environments and (re)emerging distributed AI technologies that would enable smart, Web-enabled devices to become more autonomous in their behavior and interactions: we agree that using hypermedia as the underpinning for socio-technical systems of people and autonomous agents can have broad impact on a range of research areas within and beyond computer science and laid out our deliberations in an article -titled Hypermedia to Connect them All [8] -that discusses the main challenges to achieve that vision and possible avenues for overcoming them, with the goal of enabling the development and deployment of world-wide, open systems of autonomous agents and people.…”

“…We solicited short position papers that were brie y presented, discussed, mashed up, and elaborated on in a breakout session during the workshop. These discussions formed the basis of a joint manuscript that was submitted as a community paper and accepted in Wiley's Internet Technology Letters: Hypermedia to Connect them All -Autonomous Hypermedia Agents and Socio-Technical Interactions [8]. The WoT 2017 call for papers thus included the classical WoT topics, but we asked participants to focus on the future Web of Things, rather than emphasizing their past work:…”

Enabling Discoverable Trusted Services for Highly Dynamic Decentralized Workflows

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