An Agent Model for Collaborative Ubiquitous-Computing Environments

Besides technological challenges, there is a growing interest on how pervasive computing can deeply affect the way in which people interact and accomplish collaborative tasks. Context awareness plays a crucial role for communities, where the degree of participation of a single user dynamically changes in relation to the distance from the place where practices occur and in relation with the ability of gathering the right information at the right time, and in a proper way. In this paper, we adopt an interpretation of pervasive computing as an environment, populated by interconnected smart devices, where users can interact with each other, individually or in groups, to accomplish collaborative tasks. In other words, we aim at modeling, designing and realizing Collaborative Ubiquitous Environments (CUEs). We present an agent based model, balancing the management of such a complex scenario between agents and a structured multifaceted environment.