Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
IFSA World Congress and 20th NAFIPS International Conference, 2001. Joint 9th
Conference_Location :
Vancouver, BC
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7078-3
DOI :
10.1109/NAFIPS.2001.943641
