Multi-agent building control in shared environment

Qiao, B., Liu, K. C. and Guy, C. (2007) Multi-agent building control in shared environment. In: Cardoso, J., Cordeiro, J. and Filipe, J. (eds.) Iceis 2007: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems. Insticc-Inst Syst Technologies Information Control & Communication, Setubal, pp. 159-164. ISBN 9789728865894

Abstract/Summary

Multi-agent systems have been adopted to build intelligent environment in recent years. It was claimed that energy efficiency and occupants' comfort were the most important factors for evaluating the performance of modem work environment, and multi-agent systems presented a viable solution to handling the complexity of dynamic building environment. While previous research has made significant advance in some aspects, the proposed systems or models were often not applicable in a "shared environment". This paper introduces an ongoing project on multi-agent for building control, which aims to achieve both energy efficiency and occupants' comfort in a shared environment.