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Augmenting the Physical Environment Through Embedded Wireless Technologies

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Environments for Multi-Agent Systems II (E4MAS 2005)

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Emerging pervasive computing technologies such as sensor networks and RFID tags can be embedded in our everyday environment to digitally store and elaborate a variety of information about the surrounding. By having application agents access in a dynamic and wireless way such distributed information, it is possible to enforce a notable degree of context-awareness in applications, increase the capabilities of interacting with the physical world, and eventually give a concrete meaning to the abstract concept of agent situatedness. This paper discusses how both sensor networks and RFID tags can be used to that purpose, outlining the respective advantages and drawbacks of these technologies. Then, to ground the discussion, it presents a multiagent application for physical object tracking, facilitating the finding of “forgot-somewhere” objects in an environment.

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  1. Dipartimento di Scienze e Metodi dell’Ingegneria, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Via Allegri 13, 42100, Reggio Emilia, Italy

    Marco Mamei & Franco Zambonelli

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  1. DistriNet Labs, K.U. Leuven, Belgium

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  2. NewVectors, 3520 Green Court, Suite 250, 48105, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

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  3. MODECO-CReSTIC, Université de Reims, B.P. 1035, 51687, Reims, France

    Fabien Michel

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Mamei, M., Zambonelli, F. (2006). Augmenting the Physical Environment Through Embedded Wireless Technologies. In: Weyns, D., Van Dyke Parunak, H., Michel, F. (eds) Environments for Multi-Agent Systems II. E4MAS 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3830. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11678809_11

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