A translation approach to portable ontology specifications
Knowledge Acquisition - Special issue: Current issues in knowledge modeling
The Aware Home: A Living Laboratory for Ubiquitous Computing Research
CoBuild '99 Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Cooperative Buildings, Integrating Information, Organization, and Architecture
MavHome: An Agent-Based Smart Home
PERCOM '03 Proceedings of the First IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications
Developing Intelligent Agent Systems: A Practical Guide
Developing Intelligent Agent Systems: A Practical Guide
Intelligent Agents Meet Semantic Web in a Smart Meeting Room
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 2
Creating an Ambient-Intelligence Environment Using Embedded Agents
IEEE Intelligent Systems
MAGENTA technology: multi-agent systems for industrial logistics
Proceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Method to analyze user behavior in home environment
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Converting the Industry Foundation Classes to the Web Ontology Language
SKG '05 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grid
A Novel Multi-agent Framework for the Design of Home Automation
ITNG '07 Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Technology
An Ontology-Based Approach to Context Modeling and Reasoning in Pervasive Computing
PERCOMW '07 Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops
Pellet: A practical OWL-DL reasoner
Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web
JADE: A software framework for developing multi-agent applications. Lessons learned
Information and Software Technology
A probabilistic reasoning framework for smart homes
Proceedings of the 5th international workshop on Middleware for pervasive and ad-hoc computing: held at the ACM/IFIP/USENIX 8th International Middleware Conference
Ontology-based configuration of adaptive smart homes
Proceedings of the 7th workshop on Reflective and adaptive middleware
Multi-agent Control of Shared Zones in Intelligent Buildings
CSSE '08 Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering - Volume 01
DogOnt - Ontology Modeling for Intelligent Domotic Environments
ISWC '08 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on The Semantic Web
Prometheus and INGENIAS Agent Methodologies: A Complementary Approach
Agent-Oriented Software Engineering IX
Agent based smart house platform with affective control
Proceedings of the 2009 Euro American Conference on Telematics and Information Systems: New Opportunities to increase Digital Citizenship
An Introduction to MultiAgent Systems
An Introduction to MultiAgent Systems
Control, estimation and optimization of energy efficient buildings
ACC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 conference on American Control Conference
A semantic requirement ontology for the engineering of building automation systems by means of OWL
ETFA'09 Proceedings of the 14th IEEE international conference on Emerging technologies & factory automation
Dynamic adaptability for smart environments
DAIS'08 Proceedings of the 8th IFIP WG 6.1 international conference on Distributed applications and interoperable systems
Home networking with Universal Plug and Play
IEEE Communications Magazine
State of the art of smart homes
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
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Smart homes have been viewed with increasing interest by both home owners and the research community in the past few years. One reason for this development is that the use of modern automation technology in the home or building promises considerable savings of energy, therefore, simultaneously reducing the operational costs of the building over its whole lifecycle. However, the full potential of smart homes still lies fallow, due to the complexity and diversity of the systems, badly engineered and configured installations, as well as the frequent problem of suboptimal control strategies. Summarized, these problems converge to two undesirable conditions in the "not-so-smart" home: energy consumption is still higher than actually necessary and users are unable to yield full comfort in their automated homes. This work puts its focus on alleviating the current problems by proposing a comprehensive system concept, that shall ensure that smart homes can keep their promise in the future. The system operates on an extensive knowledge base that stores all information needed to fulfill the goals of energy efficiency and user comfort. Its intelligence is implemented as and within a multiagent system that also caters for the system's openness to the outside world. As a first evaluation, a profile-based control strategy for thermal comfort is developed and verified by means of simulation.