Towards an Agent enabled Context Management Middleware

Abstract

Industry involvement in the Ambient Intelligence (AmI) domain and development of internet-connected sensor networks drive research into generic context management middleware (CMM) solutions. However, no current CMM solution seems capable of addressing the diversity of AmI applications and the entire set of functional and non-functional requirements for context management. In this work we propose a context management middleware based on the multi-agent paradigm, supporting a flexible and open management of context.