MULTI-AGENT BUILDING CONTROL IN SHARED ENVIRONMENT

Bing Qiao, Kecheng Liu, Chris Guy

2007

Abstract

Multi-agent systems have been adopted to build intelligent environment in recent years. It was claimed that energy efficiency and occupants’ comfort were the most important factors for evaluating the performance of modern work environment, and multi-agent systems presented a viable solution to handling the complexity of dynamic building environment. While previous research has made significant advance in some aspects, the proposed systems or models were often not applicable in a “shared environment”. This paper introduces an ongoing project on multi-agent for building control, which aims to achieve both energy efficiency and occupants’ comfort in a shared environment.

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in Harvard Style

Qiao B., Liu K. and Guy C. (2007). MULTI-AGENT BUILDING CONTROL IN SHARED ENVIRONMENT . In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS, ISBN 978-972-8865-89-4, pages 159-164. DOI: 10.5220/0002359301590164


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis07,
author={Bing Qiao and Kecheng Liu and Chris Guy},
title={MULTI-AGENT BUILDING CONTROL IN SHARED ENVIRONMENT},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,},
year={2007},
pages={159-164},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002359301590164},
isbn={978-972-8865-89-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,
TI - MULTI-AGENT BUILDING CONTROL IN SHARED ENVIRONMENT
SN - 978-972-8865-89-4
AU - Qiao B.
AU - Liu K.
AU - Guy C.
PY - 2007
SP - 159
EP - 164
DO - 10.5220/0002359301590164