Architecture multi-agent pour la gestion d'objets tangibles et virtuels sur Table Interactive

Research done in this thesis aims to propose a new multiagent architecture to designapplications for the new communication platforms like the interactive tables. Multiagentsystems are used for many years and can respond to the challenges of such platforms. Themotivation of our work is to manage the interactions and the behavior of several hetero-geneous entities (virtual and tangible) evolving simultaneously on a single interactive sur-face. We caracterized the agents typology and their interactions for interactive platforms.We consider a set of criteria to analyze software and technological (e.g. capture system,display, etc.) characteristics used on these new platforms. We proposed to modelize basicbehaviors needed to describe the problem (potential interactions between multiple users,tangible objects use, visualization of the environment and simulated agents, treatment ofexchanged messages, etc.), which are represented by roles played simultaneously by oneor several agents according to a set of prerequisites. With these elements, we proposeto apply our multiagent architecture on the interactive table TangiSense (equipped withRFID technology). We illustrate and validate our purpose with an application, a trafficsimulator.