The purpose of this position paper is to discuss the authors’ reflections on the use of Assistive Technologies to support user’s autonomy to perform the necessary Activities of Daily Living (ADL). In special, we will address the use of Agent-based robotic services.

of The Master's Thesis The requirements for process automation systems have changed much since the adoption of automatic control. To survive in tightening global competition the developers of automation systems are introducing new tools to increase flexibility and fault-tolerance in process automation systems. This thesis proposes that agent technology as a new programming paradigm could be uti...

Agent-oriented software engineering is faced with challenges that impact on the adoption of agent technology by the wider software engineering community. This is generally due to lack of adequate comprehension of the concepts of agent technology. This thesis is based on the premise that the comprehension of the concepts of and the adoption of agent technology can be improved. Two approaches are...

The latest buzzword in the computer industry is agent, but no one really knows how to formally define an agent. Today there are several definitions with a lot in common as well as a lot of differences. A highly unexplored area of agents is the possible applicability in the process industry. This thesis is both a survey over the agent area and an examination of how the process industry can use a...