Publication - The Intelligent Home Testbed

Authors: Lesser, Victor; Atighetchi, Michael; Benyo, Brett; Horling, Bryan; Raja, Anita; Vincent, Regis; Wagner, Thomas; Ping, Xuan; and Zhang, Shelley XQ
Title: The Intelligent Home Testbed
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: Proceedings of the Autonomy Control Software Workshop (Autonomous Agent Workshop)
Location: Seattle
Date: January 1999
Sources: PS: http://mas.cs.umass.edu/~vincent/papers/ACS-AA-99/ACS-AA-99.ps
PDF: /Documents/UM-CS-1998-040.pdf
Reference: Lesser, Victor; Atighetchi, Michael; Benyo, Brett; Horling, Bryan; Raja, Anita; Vincent, Regis; Wagner, Thomas; Ping, Xuan; and Zhang, Shelley XQ. The Intelligent Home Testbed. Proceedings of the Autonomy Control Software Workshop (Autonomous Agent Workshop). January 1999.
bibtex: 
@article{Lesser-134,
  author    = "Victor Lesser and Michael Atighetchi and Brett
               Benyo and Bryan Horling and Anita Raja and Regis
               Vincent and Thomas Wagner and Xuan Ping and
               Shelley XQ Zhang",
  title     = "{The Intelligent Home Testbed}",
  journal   = "Proceedings of the Autonomy Control Software
               Workshop (Autonomous Agent Workshop)",
  month     = "January",
  year      = "1999",
  address   = "Seattle",
  url       = "http://mas.cs.umass.edu/paper/134",
}