References

The Wikipedia articles on ambient intelligence, ubiquitous computing, and RFID are good starting points:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambient_intelligence

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubiquitous_computing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RFID

SugarScape is the main topic of Epstein and Axtell's book: Growing Artificial Societies: social science from the bottom up.

http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~susan/bib/nf/e/epstein.htm

There is a good sugarscape model that can be downloaded from sourceforge:

http://sugarscape.sourceforge.net/

There are sugarscape NetLogo models, as well.