Complexity of finding embeddings in a k-tree
SIAM Journal on Algebraic and Discrete Methods
A sufficiently fast algorithm for finding close to optimal clique trees
Artificial Intelligence
Nonserial Dynamic Programming
Learning an Agent's Utility Function by Observing Behavior
ICML '01 Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Machine Learning
Utilities as Random Variables: Density Estimation and Structure Discovery
UAI '00 Proceedings of the 16th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence
Planning under uncertainty in complex structured environments
Planning under uncertainty in complex structured environments
Convex Optimization
A robust architecture for distributed inference in sensor networks
IPSN '05 Proceedings of the 4th international symposium on Information processing in sensor networks
Model-driven data acquisition in sensor networks
VLDB '04 Proceedings of the Thirtieth international conference on Very large data bases - Volume 30
IJCAI'05 Proceedings of the 19th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence
Artificial decision making under uncertainty in intelligent buildings
UAI'99 Proceedings of the Fifteenth conference on Uncertainty in artificial intelligence
Tractable inference for complex stochastic processes
UAI'98 Proceedings of the Fourteenth conference on Uncertainty in artificial intelligence
Cost-sensitive learning with conditional Markov networks
ICML '06 Proceedings of the 23rd international conference on Machine learning
Design and implementation of a wireless sensor network for intelligent light control
Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Information processing in sensor networks
Exploring in-situ sensing irregularity in wireless sensor networks
Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
MOCUS: moving object counting using ultrasonic sensor networks
International Journal of Sensor Networks
Cost-sensitive learning with conditional Markov networks
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
Automatic Collection of Fuel Prices from a Network of Mobile Cameras
DCOSS '08 Proceedings of the 4th IEEE international conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems
Prototyping sensor-actuator networks for home automation
Proceedings of the workshop on Real-world wireless sensor networks
IPSN '09 Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks
Optimal value of information in graphical models
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Pervasive and Mobile Computing
Online distributed sensor selection
Proceedings of the 9th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks
On the protection and technologies of critical information infrastructures
Foundations of security analysis and design IV
Home energy saving through a user profiling system based on wireless sensors
Proceedings of the First ACM Workshop on Embedded Sensing Systems for Energy-Efficiency in Buildings
Exploring link correlation for efficient flooding in wireless sensor networks
NSDI'10 Proceedings of the 7th USENIX conference on Networked systems design and implementation
Using simple light sensors to achieve smart daylight harvesting
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Workshop on Embedded Sensing Systems for Energy-Efficiency in Building
Vision-based user-centric light control for smart environments
Pervasive and Mobile Computing
Sensor data driven proactive management of infrastructure systems
EG-ICE'06 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Intelligent Computing in Engineering and Architecture
SunCast: fine-grained prediction of natural sunlight levels for improved daylight harvesting
Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks
An intelligent building that listens to your needs
Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
Achieving efficient flooding by utilizing link correlation in wireless sensor networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS) - Special Section ESFH'12, ESTIMedia'11 and Regular Papers
Modeling indoor lighting inspection robot behavior using Concurrent Communicating Lists
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Exploring a hybrid control approach for enhanced user experience of interactive lighting
BCS-HCI '13 Proceedings of the 27th International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference
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Increasing user comfort and reducing operation costs have always been two primary objectives of building operations and control strategies. Current building control strategies are unable to incorporate occupant level comfort and meet the operation goals simultaneously. In this paper, we present a novel utility-based building control strategy that optimizes the tradeoff between meeting user comfort and reduction in operation cost by reducing energy usage. We present an implementation of the proposed approach as an intelligent lighting control strategy that significantly reduces energy cost. Our approach is based on a principled, decision theoretic formulation of the control task. We demonstrate the use of mobile wireless sensor networks to optimize the trade-off between fulfilling different occupants' light preferences and minimizing energy consumption. We further extend our approach to optimally exploit external light sources for additional energy savings, a process called daylight harvesting. Also we demonstrate that an active sensing approach can maximize the mobile sensor network's lifetime by sensing only during most informative situations. We provide efficient algorithms for solving the underlying complex optimization problems, and extensively evaluate our proposed approach in a proof-of-concept testbed using MICA2 motes and dimmable lamps. Our results indicate a significant improvement in user utility and reduced energy expenditure.