Agents Based Cyber-Physical Diffused Museums Over Web Interoperability Standards

Abstract

The availability of interoperability standards allows using a uniform model for integrating technologies and designing collaborating applications with a shared understanding of the exchanged information. In this perspective, we propose here the design and development of an agent-based platform that uses an interoperability framework to build a diffused museum in a cyber-physical system, where intelligent agents deliver cultural content through innovative interaction models. In particular, agents’ awareness, natural language understanding capability, and interaction ability are extended through the monitoring of user’s interaction with the IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework) standard and the integration with IIIF compliant technologies. The scalability of the proposed solution is evaluated stressing the platform with simulated workloads.

Keywords

• Conversational agents
• cultural heritage
• web interoperability
• web intelligence
• context awareness
• digital repository