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Rascal — A Resource Manager for Multi Agent Systems in Smart Spaces

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From Theory to Practice in Multi-Agent Systems (CEEMAS 2001)

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Abstract

Multi Agent Systems (MAS) are often used as a software substrate in creating smart spaces. Many of the solutions already developed within the MAS community are applicable in the domain of smart spaces. Others, however, need to be modified or re-developed. In particular, it has to be noted that many agents acting in a physical space domain are restricted in number and capability by the scarce physical hardware available. Those limitations need to be taken into account when coordinating agent activities in a MAS in a smart space.

In this paper we present Rascal, a high-level resource management system for the Intelligent Room Project, that addresses physical resource scarcities. Rascal performs the service mapping and arbitration functions for the system. Rascal is an implemented tool and has been partially deployed for day-to-day use.

The work presented here was supported in part by the Advanced Research Project Agency of the Department of Defense under contract number F30602-92-C0204, monitored through Rome Laboratory, and in part by the MIT Project Oxygen Alliance.

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    Krzysztof Gajos

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  1. Institute of Informatics, Warsaw University, ul. Banacha 2, 02-097, Warsaw, Poland

    Barbara Dunin-Keplicz

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Mining and Metallurgy, al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059, Krakow, Poland

    Edward Nawarecki

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Gajos, K. (2002). Rascal — A Resource Manager for Multi Agent Systems in Smart Spaces. In: Dunin-Keplicz, B., Nawarecki, E. (eds) From Theory to Practice in Multi-Agent Systems. CEEMAS 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2296. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45941-3_12

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