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Norm-based and commitment-driven agentification of the Internet of Things

Boukadi, K., Faci, N., Maamar, Z., Ugljanin, E., Sellami, M., Baker, T. and Al-Khafajiy, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6561-0414 (2019) Norm-based and commitment-driven agentification of the Internet of Things. Internet of Things, 6. 100042. ISSN 2542-6605

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To link to this item DOI: 10.1016/j.iot.2019.02.002

Abstract/Summary

There are no doubts that the Internet-of-Things (IoT) has conquered the ICT industry to the extent that many governments and organizations are already rolling out many anywhere,anytime online services that IoT sustains. However, like any emerging and disruptive technology, multiple obstacles are slowing down IoT practical adoption including the passive nature and privacy invasion of things. This paper examines how to empower things with necessary capabilities that would make them proactive and responsive. This means things can, for instance reach out to collaborative peers, (un)form dynamic communities when necessary, avoid malicious peers, and be “questioned” for their actions. To achieve such empowerment, this paper presents an approach for agentifying things using norms along with commitments that operationalize these norms. Both norms and commitments are specialized into social (i.e., application independent) and business (i.e., application dependent), respectively. Being proactive, things could violate commitments at run-time, which needs to be detected through monitoring. In this paper, thing agentification is illustrated with a case study about missing children and demonstrated with a testbed that uses different IoT-related technologies such as Eclipse Mosquitto broker and Message Queuing Telemetry Transport protocol. Some experiments conducted upon this testbed are also discussed.

Item Type:Article
Refereed:Yes
Divisions:Science > School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences > Department of Computer Science
ID Code:90113
Publisher:Elsevier

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