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The main advantages of MAS include:
autonomy, reactivity, ability to decide without
human interaction; adaptability, mobility,
interactivity, and flexibility. Intentional agents have
all the advantages presented above and also
represent a natural metaphor for human actions as
they can decide centered on their beliefs, desires and
intentions. Thus, we argue that the use of an
intentional MAS seems to be adequate in the
ubiquitous applications development.
Another contribution of our approach proposes
an incremental development for ubiquitous
applications, which is based on reuse. We combined
traditional and emergent technologies to specifically
support the ubiquitous software development, which
is improved using an ontology and fuzzy logic.
As further work, we intend to improve our
approach, incorporating technologies to deal with
the ubiquitous concerns using MAS. The agents’
cognition can be based on special issues on learning
techniques for compositional reasoning
(Giannakopoulou and Păsăreanu 2008) (Upal and
Rogers 2005). It can be a way to discover a new
basis for building intelligent agents. Moreover,
intentional agents can also be considered as planning
systems (Wilensky 1983). We intend to investigate
this research area in Ubiquitous Computing.
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