Sense-Deliberate-Act Cognitive Agents for Sense-Compute-Control Applications in the Internet of Things & Services
This addresses the challenge of applying agent-oriented software engineering to constrained IoT devices, but it is incremental as it builds on existing BDI agent concepts.
The paper tackles the problem of developing Sense-Compute-Control applications in the Internet of Things and Services by advocating for the use of cognitive BDI agents, but identifies that existing frameworks fail due to device constraints and proposes approaches to address these challenges.
In this paper, we advocate Agent-Oriented Software Engi-neering (AOSE) through employing Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) intel-ligent agents for developing Sense-Compute-Control (SCC) applications in the Internet of Things and Services (IoTS). We argue that not only the agent paradigm, in general, but also cognitive BDI agents with sense-deliberate-act cycle, in particular, fit very well to the nature of SCC applications in the IoTS. However, considering the highly constrained heterogeneous devices that are prevalent in the IoTS, existing BDI agent frameworks, even those especially created for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), do not work. We elaborate on the challenges and propose pos-sible approaches to address them.