Sameh Abdel-Naby

A Programming Framework for Multi-agent Coordination of Robotic Ecologies

Building smart environments with Robotic ecologies, comprising of distributed sensors, actuators and mobile robot devices facilitates and extends the nature and form of smart environments that can be developed, and reduces the complexity and cost of such solutions. While the potentials of such an approach makes robotic ecologies increasingly popular, many fundamental research questions remain open. One such question is how to make a robotic ecology self-adaptive, so as to adapt to changing conditions and evolving requirements, and consequently reduce the amount of preparation and pre-programming required for their deployment in real world applications. This paper presents a framework for the specification and the programming of robotic ecologies. The framework extends an existing agent system and integrates it with the pre-existing and dominant traditional robotic and middleware approach to the development of robotic ecologies. We illustrate how these technologies complement each other and offer a candidate technology to pursue adaptive robotic ecologies.

A study of effective social cues within ubiquitous robotics

Ubiquitous computing is the execution of computational tasks through everyday objects. Ubiquitous robotics augments the capabilities of one or more robots by leveraging ubiquitous computational and/or sensorial resources. Augmentation complements and/or enhances the capabilities of one or more robots while such robots can simultaneously serve as intermediaries or social interfaces to ubiquitous services. This paper posits the importance of conducting user studies to validate related HRI results within ubiquitous robotics. Specifically, the paper presents a pilot study designed to test the effectiveness of acknowledging human presence via non-verbal social cues and its impact on the users acceptance and engagement with a ubiquitous robotic system.

Towards a dialectical approach for conversational agents in selling situations

The use of virtual agents to intelligently interface with online customers of e-commerce businesses is remarkably increasing. Most of these virtual agents are designed to assist online customers while searching for information related to a specific product or service, while few agents are intended for promoting and selling a product or a service. Within the later type, our aim is to provide proactive agents that recommend a specific item and justify this recommendation to a customer based on his purchases history and his needs. In this paper, we propose a dialectical argumentation approach that would allow virtual agents that have sales goals to trigger persuasions with e-commerces customers. Then, we illustrate the proposed idea through its integration with an example from real-life. Categories and Subject Descriptors I.2.11 [Artificial Intelligence:] Intelligent Agents. General Terms: Algorithms.

Energy efficient approach for the system configuration of mobile WiMAX handheld device

In this paper we have described the novel approach for energy efficient configuration using IEEE 802.16e Standard. Obtained results provide an explicit picture of the best system configuration under different environmental conditions that allows to save energy while providing required data rate. This leads to the stable system condition and decreasing power consumption due to adjusting to more energy efficient state.

Investigating agent-based mobile service applications integration with reliable wireless communications

In this paper we investigate how recent advances in wireless communications can be integrated with agent-base service applications so that the connectivity between different users of the same environment, or remotely connected ones, is improved. We present two agent-based mobile service applications that employ software agents to represent end-users. We show how these applications are providing essential services for users on-the-run through distributed Bluetooth access points. We then briefly analyze possible future integration once advanced wireless communication is added to one of these services.