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There are many arguments for and against the use of autonomousagents in intelligent environments. Some researchers maintain that it is of utmost importance to give complete control to users, and hence greatly restrict autonomy of agents; whereas, others believe that is it preferable to increase user convenience by allowing agents to operate autonomously on the user’s behalf. While both of these...

Intelligent Environments depend on their capability to understand and anticipate user’s habits and needs. Therefore, learning user’s common behaviours becomes an important step towards allowing an environment to provide such personalized services. Due to the complexity of the entire learning system, this paper will focus on the automatic discovering of models of user’s behaviours. Discovering t...

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Intelligent environments are physical spaces that can sense and respond to the people and events taking place within them, providing opportunities for people to influence environmental factors that affect them, such as the lighting, temperature, décor or background music in the common areas of an office building. The designer of an environment that can be influenced by a group of collocated peo...

Intelligent autonomous agents is an emerging technology that excels the applications, having complex distributed nature and requiring communication of complex and diverse forms of information, when deployed in multi-agent system setting. As healthcare is a complex domain and distributed in nature, scientist have started to deploy intelligent agents and multi-agent technologies indifferent healt...

this paper describes how multi-agent system technology can be used as the underpinning platform for voltage control in power systems. in this study, some facts (flexible ac transmission systems) devices are properly designed to coordinate their decisions and actions in order to provide a coordinated secondary voltage control mechanism based on multi-agent theory. each device here is modeled as ...

This paper addresses an ongoing experience in the design of an artificial agent taking decisions and combining them with the decisions taken by human agents. The context is a serious game research project, aimed at computer-based support for participatory management of protected areas (and more specifically national parks) in order to promote biodiversity conservation and social inclusion. Its ...

This paper builds on an existing notion of group responsibility in [2] and proposes two ways to define the degree of group responsibility: structural and functional degrees of responsibility. These notions measure the potential responsibilities of (agent) groups for avoiding a state of affairs. According to these notions, a degree of responsibility for a state of affairs can be assigned to a gr...