APRIL—Agent PRocess Interaction Language
ECAI-94 Proceedings of the workshop on agent theories, architectures, and languages on Intelligent agents
Design principles for intelligent environments
AAAI '98/IAAI '98 Proceedings of the fifteenth national/tenth conference on Artificial intelligence/Innovative applications of artificial intelligence
Industrial and practical applications of DAI
Multiagent systems
Modern Control Engineering
An Agent-Based Approach to Monitoring and Control of District Heating Systems
IEA/AIE '02 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Industrial and engineering applications of artificial intelligence and expert systems: developments in applied artificial intelligence
Saving Energy and Providing Value Added Services in Intelligent Buildings: A MAS Approach
ASA/MA 2000 Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Agent Systems and Applications and Fourth International Symposium on Mobile Agents
Artificial decision making under uncertainty in intelligent buildings
UAI'99 Proceedings of the Fifteenth conference on Uncertainty in artificial intelligence
Minimizing Energy Consumption in Heating Systems under Uncertainty
HAIS '08 Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems
A Thermodynamical Model Study for an Energy Saving Algorithm
HAIS '09 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems
ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS)
Energy saving by means of fuzzy systems
IDEAL'07 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Intelligent data engineering and automated learning
Agents for energy efficiency in ubiquitous environments
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services
A novel strategy approach for agent-based resource management system
WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Coordinating the web of services for a smart home
ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB)
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We describe a decentralized system consisting of a collection of software agents that monitor and control an office building. It uses the existing power lines for communication between the agents and the electrical devices of the building, such as sensors and actuators for lights and heating. The objectives are both energy saving and increasing customer satisfaction through value added services. Results of qualitative simulations and quantitative analysis based on thermodynamical modeling of an office building and its staff using four different approaches for controlling the building indicate that significant energy savings can result from using the agent-based approach. The evaluation also shows that customer satisfaction can be increased in most situations. The approach here presented makes it possible to control the trade-off between energy saving and customer satisfaction (and actually increase both, in comparison with current approaches).