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Agent-Based Approach for User-Centric Smart Environments

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Agents and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications 2020

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Internet of Things (IoT) solutions are becoming irreplaceable in various application domains. IoT enables control over many systems in a smart environment, such as the heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system, lighting, and appliances in a smart home or office. By enhancing IoT solutions with a cognitive capability it becomes possible to, for example, adjust ambient conditions according to user preferences without the need for direct user intervention. This functionality constitutes a fore-coming phase in IoT evolution—Cognitive IoT. In this paper, we propose an agent-based smart environment system and compare it to a centralized implementation. In both approaches, feed-forward artificial neural networks are trained under supervision and used to adjust the lighting conditions to the specific user. The agent-based approach offers better preference prediction precision as each user is supported by one agent with a neural network specialized only for his preferences as opposed to the centralized approach where all user preferences are predicted by one neural network. Additionally, the agent-based approach enables easier addition of new users.

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Acknowledgements

This work has been supported in part by Croatian Science Foundation under the project IP-2019-04-1986 (IoT4us: Human-centric smart services in interoperable and decentralized IoT environments).

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  1. Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing Internet of Things Laboratory Unska 3, University of Zagreb, HR-10000, Zagreb, Croatia

    Katarina Mandaric, Pavle Skocir & Gordan Jezic

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  1. Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    G. Jezic

  2. School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, The Heriot-Watt University, Scotland, UK

    J. Chen-Burger

  3. Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    M. Kusek

  4. Department of Business Economics and Management, Silesian University in Opava, Opava, Czech Republic

    R. Sperka

  5. Bournemouth University and KES International Research, Shoreham-by-sea, UK

    Robert J. Howlett

  6. University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Lakhmi C. Jain

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Mandaric, K., Skocir, P., Jezic, G. (2020). Agent-Based Approach for User-Centric Smart Environments. In: Jezic, G., Chen-Burger, J., Kusek, M., Sperka, R., Howlett, R., Jain, L. (eds) Agents and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications 2020. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 186. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5764-4_4

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