Agents for energy efficiency in ubiquitous environments

  • Authors:
  • Oras F. Baker;Ismail Khalil;Gabriele Kotsis

  • Affiliations:
  • UCSI University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia;Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria;Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In ubiquitous environments a vast amount of mobile human and software entities, each with limited resources and knowledge, needs to interact with each other to achieve common and/or individual goals within a specific context. Due to their autonomy, proactiveness, mobility, social capability, and the successful implementation of agent mediated applications and services over the Web, different scenarios have been proposed in literature for the use of agents in ubiquitous environments for a wide range of applications such as user interfaces, mobile computing, information retrieval and filtering, smart messaging, telecommunication and m-commerce. In this paper, we address the problem of energy efficiency in ubiquitous environments from customer satisfaction, customer awareness and energy savings points of view. We propose an agent-based information system in which agents act on behalf of the users, are situated within the appliances, sensors and actuators, or represent different stakeholders in the energy market. Different scenarios have been proposed as the basis for the proposed information system.