SEMTEK: AN ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECT ABOUT AGENTS’ THEORY APPLIED TO THE CONTEXT SEMANTIC ADAPTATION Aitor Urbieta Artetxe Carlos Gómez Díez Guillermo Barrutieta Anduiza Mondragon Unibertsitatea Loramendi 4, Arrasate, Gipuzkoa Marta González Rodríguez Robotiker Parke Teknologikoa 202 Eraikuntza, Zamudio, Bizkaia Joseba Abaitua JosuKa Díaz Labrador Deustuko Unibertsitatea Unibertsitateen etorbidea 24, Bilbao, Bizkaia Carlos Lamsfus Franco VICOMTech Mikeletegi Pasealekua 57, Donostia, Gipuzkoa ABSTRACT To create an Ambient Intelligence (AmI) environment, it is necessary for the devices and programs to have information about the context where they are, in order to satisfy people’s needs, attend their requirements and foresee their behavior. To represent the information in the context it’s necessary to define ontologies which model temporal and spatial aspects, profiles, etc. and agents can share and reasoning about it easier because they can use high level semantic languages. That’s why SEMTEK wants to apply the agents’ theory to the semantic adaptation that lets customize the information to user’s devices and future AmI devices. This theory will make possible the development of a core prototype which will be applicable to many use cases. KEYWORDS Ambient Intelligence, Context-Aware, Ubiquitous Computing, Semantic Web, Ontologies, Software Agents. 1. INTRODUCTION SEMTEK project’s objective is the application of agents theory to the semantic adaptation of the information inside the context to the device in an Ambient Intelligence environment. Since some of the terms mentioned in the previous paragraph can give rise to ambiguities we want to indicate what we understand by each one of them: • Agents are re-usable software components that provide controlled access to (shared) services and resources that exist in complex and dynamic surroundings, where they feel and act independently (Franklin and Graesser, 1996). ISBN: 972-8924-09-7 © 2006 IADIS 590