Towards Initiative Smart Space model

This paper presents an initiative model for building Open Smart Space (OpenSS) environment. OpenSS is the middle stage of Smart Space identified as the test-bed for pervasive computing research. The model is regarded as a three-layered model: (1) physical space layer, introducing an ontology-based model to represent the entities, the boundary and the fusion of physical space and cyber space; (2) agent layer, adopting the multi-agent architecture to specify the relationships between the entities in the physical space layer; (3) mechanism layer, aiming to manage the agents in agent layer to provide enhanced mechanism. This model is motivated and partially validated in the previous and ongoing scenarios, hopefully facilitating building the future OpenSS related projects.