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In the vision of Semantic Web, agents are defined as the programs that collect information from diverse sources, processes the information and exchanges the results with other programs. To show the potential of the semantic web agents, we extend application areas of the agents to the real world, namely ubiquitous computing. In this paper, we propose semantic web agents that coordinate devices, services and humans in ubiquitous computing to solve this human-centered service coordination issue. It is called location-mediated agent coordination. This paper describes some research issues realizing the human-centered service coordination in ubiquitous computing, namely intention gaps and representation gaps. We describe the idea of location-mediated agent coordination to solve these issues.
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Sashima, A., Izumi, N., Kurumatani, K. (2004). Agents that Coordinate Devices, Services, and Humans in Ubiquitous Computing. In: Klusch, M., Ossowski, S., Kashyap, V., Unland, R. (eds) Cooperative Information Agents VIII. CIA 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3191. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30104-2_13
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