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The Study of Applying an Agent-based Theory to Build Adaptive Environment: A Smart House Envelope Design as an Example

Shang-Yuan Chen 1 Mao-Lin Chiu 2

KEYWORDS: Smart House, Intelligent Agent, Context-Awareness, Fuzzy-Logic and Neuro-Fuzzy, Adaptive Environment

ABSTRACT A smart house design has been an important research paradigm relying on information and current communication technology development. Although making use of environmental sensors, information, communication and internet technologies have inspired the creation of smart equipment; the question of How to satisfy occupants needs is still an important issue for making living space smart. An intelligent agent, as a knowledge representation tool for computing and communication functions, is an autonomous software program of artificial intelligence. This paper proposes to build adaptive environmental agents, which are able to actively detect different situations and make optimum decisions relying on fuzzy-logic, inferring and adapting their functions to meet environmental variations and different occupants needs, following neuro-fuzzy learning. This research explored potentials of a smart house envelope and proposes three key elements for system integration: (1) intelligent agent, (2) context-awareness, and (3) fuzzy theory. This research discovers that correspondent relationships and experimental transmissions between occupants and environments make environmental agents user experience-oriented, with context-awareness abilities based on the smart envelope prototypes construction, evaluation and analysis. 1, Ph. D. candidate, Department of Architecture, National Cheng Kung University & Lecture, Feng Chia University 2 Professor, Department of Architecture, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

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