Sense-Deliberate-Act Cognitive Agents for Sense-Compute-Control Applications in the Internet of Things & Services

TL;DR

This paper advocates using Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) cognitive agents with sense-deliberate-act cycles for developing Sense-Compute-Control applications in IoT, addressing challenges posed by device constraints.

Contribution

It proposes the suitability of BDI cognitive agents for IoT SCC applications and discusses challenges and approaches for implementing them on constrained devices.

Findings

BDI agents fit well with IoT SCC applications.

Existing frameworks are inadequate for constrained IoT devices.

Proposed approaches address implementation challenges.

Abstract

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.