Ubiquitous computing : vanishing the notion of application

This paper postulates that multi-agent systems are the right choice for the design and implementation of pervasive frameworks. This claim relies on the idea that the notion of application is a nonsense in a pervasive environment because of its highly dynamic characteristics. Instead, we propose the use of an interaction based design, relying on multi-agent concepts like agents incrementally built from skills, role decomposition, reification of interactions and organizations. We will first give a brief overview of available concepts and technologies to support pervasive computing, before introducing our interaction-based design relying on our minimal agent model.