Publication - A Multi-Agent System for Intelligent Environment Control

Authors: Lesser, Victor, Atighetchi, Michael, Benyo, Brett, Horling, Bryan, Raja, Anita, Vincent, Regis, Wagner, Thomas, Xuan, Ping, Zhang, Shelly XQ
Title: A Multi-Agent System for Intelligent Environment Control
Abstract: Intelligent environments are an interesting development and research application problem for multi-agent systems. The functional and spatial distribution of tasks naturally lends itself to a multi-agent model and the existence of shared resources creates interactions over which the agents must coordinate. In the UMASS Intelligent Home project we have designed and implemented a set of distributed autonomous home control agents and deployed them in a simulated home environment. Our focus is primarily on resource coordination, though this project has multiple goals and areas of exploration ranging from the intellectual evaluation of the application as a general MAS testbed to the practical evaluation of our agent building and simulation tools.
Keywords: IHome, JAF, MASS
Publication: Computer Science Technical Report 1998-40
Publisher: University of Massachusetts
Date: January 1999
Sources: PS: ftp://ftp.cs.umass.edu/pub/techrept/techreport/1998/UM-CS-1998-040.ps
HTML: http://mas.cs.umass.edu/research/ihome/papers/AA-99/
Reference: Lesser, Victor, Atighetchi, Michael, Benyo, Brett, Horling, Bryan, Raja, Anita, Vincent, Regis, Wagner, Thomas, Xuan, Ping, Zhang, Shelly XQ. A Multi-Agent System for Intelligent Environment Control. Computer Science Technical Report 1998-40, University of Massachusetts. January 1999.
bibtex: 
@techreport{Lesser-120,
  author    = "Victor Lesser and Michael Atighetchi and Brett
               Benyo and Bryan Horling and Anita Raja and Regis
               Vincent and Thomas Wagner and Ping Xuan and Shelly
               XQ Zhang",
  title     = "{A Multi-Agent System for Intelligent Environment
               Control}",
  institution = "University of Massachusetts",
  type      = "Computer Science Technical Report",
  month     = "January",
  year      = "1999",
  url       = "http://mas.cs.umass.edu/paper/120",
}