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Understandable and persuasive recommendations support the electricity consumers' behavioral change to tackle the energy efficiency problem. Generating load shifting recommendations for household appliances as explainable increases the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Alona Zharova , Annika Boer , Julia Knoblauch , Kai Ingo Schewina , Jana Vihs

One of the main research areas in Artificial Intelligence is the coding of agents (programs) which are able to learn by themselves in any situation. This means that agents must be useful for purposes other than those they were created for,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-02-04 Javier Insa-Cabrera , Jose Hernandez-Orallo

Existing home energy management systems conceptualize occupants as passive recipients of energy information and control, which limits their ability to effectively support informed decision-making and sustained engagement. This paper…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Wooyoung Jung

For improving e-health services, we propose a context-aware framework to monitor the activities of daily living of dependent persons. We define a strategy for generating long-term realistic scenarios and a framework containing an adaptive…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Haider Mshali , Tayeb Lemlouma , Damien Magoni

Reminder systems commonly rely on fixed schedules, location triggers, or simple rules, limiting their ability to leverage the rich sensing capabilities of modern smart homes. A key challenge lies in enabling users to specify context-aware…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Reina Szeyi Chan , Sujendra Jayant Gharat , Maya Lampi , Yueran Jia , Avi K Srinivasan , Xiang Zhi Tan

Agentic AI systems are rapidly advancing toward real-world applications, yet their readiness in complex and personalized environments remains insufficiently characterized. To address this gap, we introduce PersonalHomeBench, a benchmark for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Manasa Bharadwaj , Yolanda Liu , InJung Yang , Sungil Kim , Nikhil Verma , KoKeun Kim , Kevin Ferreira , YoungJoon Kim

This work presents a novel architecture for context-aware interactions within smart environments, leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) to enhance user experiences. Our system integrates user location data obtained through UWB tags and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Aurora Polo-Rodríguez , Laura Fiorini , Erika Rovini , Filippo Cavallo , Javier Medina-Quero

Fairly rapid environmental changes call for continuous surveillance and on-line decision making. There are two main areas where IT technologies can be valuable. In this paper we present a multi-agent system for monitoring and assessing…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ioannis N Athanasiadis , Pericles A Mitkas

Computer-based modelling and simulation have become useful tools to facilitate humans to understand systems in different domains, such as physics, astrophysics, chemistry, biology, economics, engineering and social science. A complex system…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Xing Su , Yan Kong , Weihua Li

In today's life, more and more people tend to opt for a smart house. In this way, the idea of including technology has become popular worldwide. Despite this concept's many benefits, managing security remains an essential problem due to the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Ana-Maria Comeaga , Iuliana Marin

Increasing attention to the research on activity monitoring in smart homes has motivated the employment of ambient intelligence to reduce the deployment cost and solve the privacy issue. Several approaches have been proposed for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Son N. Tran , Qing Zhang , Mohan Karunanithi

Our hypothesis is that by equipping certain agents in a multi-agent system controlling an intelligent building with automated decision support, two important factors will be increased. The first is energy saving in the building. The second…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-01-30 Magnus Boman , Paul Davidsson , Hakan L. Younes

Research interest in autonomous agents is on the rise as an emerging topic. The notable achievements of Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated the considerable potential to attain human-like intelligence in autonomous agents.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Hung Du , Srikanth Thudumu , Rajesh Vasa , Kon Mouzakis

The success of smart environments largely depends on their smartness of understanding the environments' ongoing situations. Accordingly, this task is an essence to smart environment central processors. Obtaining knowledge from the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Hossein Rajaby Faghihi , Mohammad Amin Fazli , Jafar Habibi

Advances in automated systems afford new opportunities for intelligent management of energy at household, local area, and utility scales. Home Energy Management Systems (HEMS) can play a role by optimizing the schedule and use of household…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-29 John C. Boik , Kobus Esterhuysen , Jacqueline B. Hynes , Axel Constant , Ines Hipolito , Mahault Albarracin , Alex B. Kiefer , Karl Friston

Demographic growth and rise in the average age of the population is increasing the demand for the elderly assistance. Health care oriented ambient intelligence technologies are fundamental to support elderly peoples' autonomy. In this…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Mariya Kilina , Tommaso Elia , Syed Yusha Kareem , Alessandro Carfi , Fulvio Mastrogiovanni

This study presents a conceptual framework and a prototype assessment for Large Language Model (LLM)-based Building Energy Management System (BEMS) AI agents to facilitate context-aware energy management in smart buildings through natural…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Tianzhi He , Farrokh Jazizadeh

Computational agents support humans in many areas of life and are therefore found in heterogeneous contexts. This means they operate in rapidly changing environments and can be confronted with huge state and action spaces. In order to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Nicole Merkle , Ralf Mikut

When developing smart home systems, developers integrate and compose smart devices and software applications. Because of their diversity and heterogeneity, developers usually encounter many problems. In this paper, we present a runtime…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-07-28 Kaidong Wu , Xiao He , Xing Chen , Gang Huang

Making a decision in a changeable and dynamic environment is an arduous task owing to the lack of information, their uncertainties and the unawareness of planners about the future evolution of incidents. The use of a decision support system…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-04-21 Fahem Kebair , Frederic Serin