Ambient Intelligence (AmI)

Abstract

Philips Research introduced Ambient Intelligence(AmI) in the year 1998. In 2001 AmI was taken up by The European Commission’s Information Society Technologies Advisory Group (ISTAG). In computing, ambient intelligence (AmI) refers to electronic environments that are sensitive and responsive to the presence of people. Ambient intelligence is a vision on the future of consumer electronics, telecommunications and computing for the time frame 2010–2020.

The development of ambient intelligence (AmI) applications that effectively adapt to the needs of the users and environments requires the presence of planning mechanisms for goal-oriented behavior. A planning system for AmI applications is based on the hierarchical task network (HTN) approach and is called distributed hierarchical task network (D-HTN). D-HTN is able to find courses of actions to address given goals.

The application areas of AmI include health-related applications, public transportation sector, education services etc. In this seminar, I will give an insight into ambient intelligence technology and a planner for AmI applications.