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In this paper we describe an agent-based infrastructure for multimodal
perceptual systems which aims at developing and realizing
computer services that are delivered to humans in an implicit
and unobtrusive way. The framework presented here supports
the implementation of human-centric context-aware applications
providing non-obtrusive assistance to participants in events such
as meetings, lectures, conferences and presentations taking place
in indoor “smart spaces”. We emphasize on the design and implementation
of an agent-based framework that supports “pluggable”
service logic in the sense that the service developer can
concentrate on coding the service logic independently of the underlying
middleware. Furthermore, we give an example of the
architecture’s ability to support the cooperation of multiple services
in a meeting scenario using an intelligent connector service
and a semantic web oriented travel service.
