Semantic Agent Contracts for Internet of Agents

Norm-based and commitment-driven agentification of the Internet of Things

“…Pico-Valencia and Holgado-Terriza shed the light on some limitations of IoT that result from both the no-reasoning over things' surroundings and the no-handling of social aspects [33]. These limitations prevent things from being proactive and, thus, confine them into a role of data supplier, only.…”

“…In fact, things will be accountable for their actions. While we already see some positive and encouraging signs of thing empowerment through initiatives like intelligent things [18], wisdom Web of things [9], semantic things [17], Internet of social things [4], Internet of agents [33], agents of things [27,34], agentified use of IoT [19], process of things [22], and organizational structures for IoT [35], we discuss, here, our work on agentifying 3 (with reference to software agents [23]) things. This agentification is done from 2 perspectives: conceptual using norms to guide things (what can be done) and operational using commitments to allow things to act in compliance with these norms.…”

Weaving cognition into the internet-of-things: Application to water leaks

“…Other signs of thing empowerment include wisdom Web of things[7], semantic things[14], Internet of agents[19], and agents of things[20].…”

Software agents meet internet of things

“…Pico-Valencia and Holgado-Terriza point out some obstacles of IoT that are primarily due to lack of reasoning over things' surroundings and handling social aspects. 8 Both prevent things from being proactive and thus, confine things into a role of data suppliers, only. Acting on behalf of things, software agents could address these concerns.…”

“…Things would be able to reach out to collaborative peers, form dynamic communities when necessary, avoid malicious peers, and be accountable for their actions. While we already see some encouraging signs of thing empowerment through initiatives like semantic things, Internet of social things, Internet of agents, agents of things, and agentified use of IoT , we discuss, in this position paper, how the agentification of things happens from a conceptual perspective using norms and from an operational perspective using commitments. Both norm and commitment are related to each other.…”