The UMASS Intelligent Home Project

Intelligent environmentsareaninterestingdevelopmentandresearchapplication problem for multi-agent systems.The functionalandspatialdistribution of tasksnaturally lendsitself to a multi-agent model andthe existenceof sharedresourcescreatesinteractionsover which the agentsmust coordinate.In the UMASS Intelligent Homeprojectwe havedesignedand implementeda setof distributedautonomoushomecontrol agentsanddeployed themin a simulatedhomeenvironment. Our focusis primarily on resourcecoordination,though this project hasmultiple goalsandareasof exploration ranging from the intellectual evaluationof the applicationasa generalMAS testbedto the practical evaluationof our agentbuilding and simulationtools.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1999
• Where: AGENTS
• Authors: Victor R. Lesser, Michael Atighetchi, Brett Benyo, Bryan Horling, Anita Raja, Régis Vincent, Thomas Wagner, Ping Xuan, Xiaoqin Zhang
• Keywords: AGENTS 1999, Intelligent Environmentsareaninterestingdevelopmentandresearchapplication Problem, Multi-agent Systems.The Functionalandspatialdistribution, Security Privacy, UMASS Intelligent Homeprojectwe