Realizing the ambient intelligence vision through the deployment of mobile, intentional agents

Ambient computing as an ideal demands levels of functional attainment
that have thus far not been realised. Ambient applications require that the
computing application be subsumed into the everyday context in an unobtrusive
manner with interaction modalities that are natural, simple and appropriate to
both the individual user and their associated context. Within this paper, we consider
the use of mobile intentional agents as potential key enablers in the delivery
of ambient intelligent services. In particular, we compare and contrast two
agent-based ambient intelligence case studies