Intrinsically motivated agent for service management in smart homes

We discuss the challenges of designing an adaptive service management for smart homes. Agents with intrinsic motivation are proposed to deal with environment uncertainty, incomplete information, and diversity of requirements. The proposed agent-mediate service is realized by a goal oriented approach, which can help service customers to make fast and intelligent decisions so as to achieve the user requirements on transparency, reliability, and interoperability. An experimental study shows the effectiveness of the proposed service management.