Intelligent Multi-Agent Middleware for Ubiquitous Home Networking Environments

The next stage of the home networking environment is supposed to be ubiquitous, where each piece of material is equipped with an RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tag. To fully support the ubiquitous environment, home networking middleware should be able to recommend home services based on a user-s interests and efficiently manage information on service usage profiles for the users. Therefore, USN (Ubiquitous Sensor Network) technology, which recognizes and manages a appliance-s state-information (location, capabilities, and so on) by connecting RFID tags is considered. The Intelligent Multi-Agent Middleware (IMAM) architecture was proposed to intelligently manage the mobile RFID-based home networking and to automatically supply information about home services that match a user-s interests. Evaluation results for personalization services for IMAM using Bayesian-Net and Decision Trees are presented.

Authors:

• Minwoo Son
• Seung-Hun Lee
• Dongkyoo Shin
• Dongil Shin

Keywords:

• Intelligent Agents
• Home Network
• Mobile RFID
• Intelligent Middleware.

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