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This paper propose the use of multi-agent based simulation (MABS) to allow testing, validating and verifying Ambient Intelligence (AmI) environments in a flexible and robust way. The development of AmI is very complex because of this technology must often adapt to contextual information as well as unpredictable and changeable behaviours. The concrete simulation is called Ubik and is integrated into the AmISim architecture which is also presented in this paper. This architecture deals with AmI applications in order to discover defects, estimate quality of applications, help to make decisions about the design, etc. The paper shows that Ubik and AmISim provide a simulation framework which can test scenarios that would be impossible in real environments or even with previous AmI simulation approaches.
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Garcia-Valverde, T., Serrano, E., Botia, J.A. (2010). Social Simulation for AmI Systems Engineering. In: Graña Romay, M., Corchado, E., Garcia Sebastian, M.T. (eds) Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems. HAIS 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6076. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13769-3_10
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