A Multi-Agent System for Intelligent Environment Control

Intelligent environments are an interesting development and research application problem for multiagentsystems. The functional and spatial distribution of tasks naturally lends itself to a multi-agentmodel and the existence of shared resources creates interactions over which the agents must coordinate. Inthe UMASS Intelligent Home project we have designed and implemented a set of distributed autonomoushome control agents and deployed them in a simulated home environment. Our focus is...