Smart Agents and Smart Environments: a Predictive Approach to Replanning

There is an increasing interest in the design and development of smart environments as they can be used to implement valuable applications aiming at improving the quality of life. However, another important issue, which has not been yet fully investigated, concerns the design and development of agents able to effectively and efficiently act in the new and emerging smart environments characterized by an increasing complexity and openness. This paper proposes a novel approach for dynamic (re)planning for agents which come into and would act in such kind of smart environments. The flexibility of the approach makes it exploitable also in the design of the replanning capabilities of smart environments both conceived as single rational entities that as a multi agent systems.