Collaboration of networked home electronics using multi-agent technology

Author

Mine, Yukinobu ; Hiraishi, Hinori ; Mizoguchi, Fumio

Author_Institution

Inf. Media Center, Sci. Univ. of Tokyo, Chiba, Japan

fYear

2001

fDate

25-28 July 2001

Firstpage

2648

Abstract

The authors indicate the advantages of multi-agent technology as a control method for home electronics such as TV, lighting, cellular phones, PDAs and robots. They propose a collaboration method for the multi-agent control method for home electronics. The developer must extract the functions of a device, and provide it as a software component, and must also provide agents that execute a request from users. An agent realizes it using abstract functions of components and/or other agents. Users set up the precondition of activation of agents using a user interface device such as a PDA

Keywords

groupware; home automation; intelligent control; multi-agent systems; object-oriented programming; PDAs; TV; abstract functions; cellular phones; collaboration method; control method; lighting; multi-agent control method; multi-agent technology; networked home electronics collaboration; robots; software component; user interface device; Application software; Collaboration; Graphical user interfaces; Home appliances; Image recognition; Java; Printers; TV; Telephony; User interfaces;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

IFSA World Congress and 20th NAFIPS International Conference, 2001. Joint 9th

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7078-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NAFIPS.2001.943641

Filename

943641