Collaboration of networked home electronics using multi-agent technology

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.