To assist developers in creating the software entities of an ambient computing environment, the Simple Agent Library for Smart Ambients (SALSA) was created.
The Ambient Intelligence (AmI) paradigm envisions systems whose central entity is the user.
This successfully fuses the cream of Blue Note into a single entity, a hazy mosaic that's more ambient background music than something you stroke your chin to.
The U.S. EPA maintains a national repository of ambient air quality data collected by local, state, tribal, and federal entities called the Air Quality System (AQS) (U.S. EPA 2006b).
While this effort considers AmI environments, specifically, the ambient-intelligent systems requirements, it considers the services as passive entities, requiring the users to explicitly initiate the interaction with smart objects.
Because both selective forces and ambient genetic patterns are subject to change, current patterns are labile rather than fixed entities (Sgrò et al. 2011).
And the last time we heard from the band as a recorded entity, a full 22 years ago, they were also branching out into that territory, with the airy ambient techno of their third album Pygmalion.
Ambient yet attention-grabbing.
