A Multi Agent System for Intelligent Environment Control

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