Connected communities from the standpoint of multi-agent systems
We study the provision of software agents for connected communities, a class of applications aiming to augment the way people interact and socialize in geographically co-located communities such as neighbourhoods. Following a number of experiments that we have carried out in this area, we propose a multi-agent architecture and we study how to instantiate it in order to design a specific connected community system. We further report on the research challenges, the opportunities and risks raised by agent-based connected communities.
connected communities software agents social computing adaptive interfaces information dissemination