Designing and Modeling Smart Environments (Invited Paper)
WOWMOM '06 Proceedings of the 2006 International Symposium on on World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks
How smart are our environments? An updated look at the state of the art
Pervasive and Mobile Computing
Coping with multiple residents in a smart environment
Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments
Coping with multiple residents in a smart environment
Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
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The essence of pervasive (ubiquitous) computing lies in the creation of smart environments saturated with computing and communication capabilities, yet gracefully integrated with human users. 驴Context Awareness驴 is perhaps the most important feature of such an intelligent computing paradigm. The mobility and activity of the inhabitants play significant roles in forming the context at any instance of time. In order to extract the best performance and efficacy of smart computing environments, one needs a technology-independent, context-aware platform spanning over multiple inhabitants. In this paper, we have developed a framework for mobility-aware resource (in particular, energy consumption) management in a multi-inhabitant smart home, based on a dynamic, cooperative reinforcement learning technique. The inhabitants驴 mobility creates uncertainty of his location and activity. Using the proposed cooperative game-theory based framework, all the inhabitants currently present in the house attempt to minimize this overall uncertainty in the form of utility functions associated with them. Joint optimization of the utility function corresponds to the convergence to Nash equilibrium and helps in accurate prediction of inhabitants驴 future locations and activities. This results in adaptive control of automated devices and temperature of the house, thus providing an amicable environment and sufficient comfort to the inhabitants. Simulation results point out that our framework can adaptively control the smart environment, while reducing the energy consumption and enhancing the comfort.