scholarly journals Reasoning in Multi-agent Based Smart Homes: A Systematic Literature Review

2019 ◽  
pp. 161-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dagmawi Neway Mekuria ◽  
Paolo Sernani ◽  
Nicola Falcionelli ◽  
Aldo Franco Dragoni
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
Smart Homes ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Multi Agent

scholarly journals Older Adults’ Loneliness, Social Isolation, and Physical Information and Communication Technology in the Era of Ambient Assisted Living: A Systematic Literature Review (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rita Latikka ◽  
Rosana Rubio-Hernández ◽  
Elena Simona Lohan ◽  
Juho Rantala ◽  
Fernando Nieto Fernández ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Social Isolation ◽  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
Assisted Living ◽  
Ambient Assisted Living ◽  
Smart Homes ◽  
Information And Communication

BACKGROUND Loneliness and social isolation can have severe effects on human health and well-being. Partial solutions to combat these circumstances in demographically aging societies have been sought from the field of information and communication technology (ICT). OBJECTIVE This systematic literature review investigates the research conducted on older adults’ loneliness and social isolation, and physical ICTs, namely robots, wearables, and smart homes, in the era of ambient assisted living (AAL). The aim is to gain insight into how technology can help overcome loneliness and social isolation other than by fostering social communication with people and what the main open-ended challenges according to the reviewed studies are. METHODS The data were collected from 7 bibliographic databases. A preliminary search resulted in 1271 entries that were screened based on predefined inclusion criteria. The characteristics of the selected studies were coded, and the results were summarized to answer our research questions. RESULTS The final data set consisted of 23 empirical studies. We found out that ICT solutions such as smart homes can help detect and predict loneliness and social isolation, and technologies such as robotic pets and some other social robots can help alleviate loneliness to some extent. The main open-ended challenges across studies relate to the need for more robust study samples and study designs. Further, the reviewed studies report technology- and topic-specific open-ended challenges. CONCLUSIONS Technology can help assess older adults’ loneliness and social isolation, and alleviate loneliness without direct interaction with other people. The results are highly relevant in the COVID-19 era, where various social restrictions have been introduced all over the world, and the amount of research literature in this regard has increased recently.

Agent mining approaches: an ontological view

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanuelle Grislin-Le Strugeon ◽  
Kathia Marcal de Oliveira ◽  
Dorsaf Zekri ◽  
Marie Thilliez
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Knowledge Discovery ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
Software Agent ◽  
Application Domain ◽  
Multi Agent Systems ◽  
Agent Systems ◽  
Agent Mining ◽  
Multi Agent

Abstract Introduced as an interdisciplinary area that combines multi-agent systems, data mining and knowledge discovery, agent mining is currently in practice. To develop agent mining applications involves a combination of different approaches (model, architecture, technique and so on) from software agent and data mining (DM) areas. This paper presents an investigation of the approaches used in the agent mining systems by deeply analyzing 121 papers resulting from a systematic literature review. An ontology was defined to capitalize the knowledge collected from this study. The ontology is organized according to seven main facets: the problem addressed, the application domain, the agent-related and the mining-related elements, the models, processes and algorithms. This ontology is aimed at providing support to decisions about agent mining application design.

scholarly journals Logic-based technologies for multi-agent systems: a systematic literature review

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberta Calegari ◽  
Giovanni Ciatto ◽  
Viviana Mascardi ◽  
Andrea Omicini
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
Intelligent Systems ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Multi Agent Systems ◽  
Agent Systems ◽  
Computer Scientists ◽  
Multi Agent ◽  
The Subject

Abstract Precisely when the success of artificial intelligence (AI) sub-symbolic techniques makes them be identified with the whole AI by many non-computer-scientists and non-technical media, symbolic approaches are getting more and more attention as those that could make AI amenable to human understanding. Given the recurring cycles in the AI history, we expect that a revamp of technologies often tagged as “classical AI”—in particular, logic-based ones—will take place in the next few years. On the other hand, agents and multi-agent systems (MAS) have been at the core of the design of intelligent systems since their very beginning, and their long-term connection with logic-based technologies, which characterised their early days, might open new ways to engineer explainable intelligent systems. This is why understanding the current status of logic-based technologies for MAS is nowadays of paramount importance. Accordingly, this paper aims at providing a comprehensive view of those technologies by making them the subject of a systematic literature review (SLR). The resulting technologies are discussed and evaluated from two different perspectives: the MAS and the logic-based ones.

scholarly journals Novel applications of agent-based modeling in emergency medicine research – A systematic literature review

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (12) ◽  
pp. 1971-1973 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason M. Adleberg ◽  
Christina L. Catlett ◽  
Richard E. Rothman ◽  
Katie Lobner ◽  
Yu-Hsiang Hsieh
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Medicine ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
Agent Based Modeling ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Medicine Research ◽  
Novel Applications

scholarly journals Solar Powered Dc Nano-Grid with Multi Agent Control Strategy

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2S2) ◽  
pp. 971-977
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Residential Building ◽  
Smart Homes ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Comfort Levels ◽  
Central Controller ◽  
Flexible Loads ◽  
Multi Agent ◽  
Solar Powered ◽  
And Storage

Smart homes are typical examples of DC Nano-grids wherein multi-agent strategy is required for coordinating different entities to harness flexible load and storage to maximize the integration of intermittent renewable generation. This paper proposes a novel multi-agent approach for DC Nano-grids in smart homes with an aim to simultaneously maximize comfort levels and renewable integration. In the proposed approach, there are three agents: flexible loads, batteries, and renewable energy sources which interact among them for meeting the control objectives. The agents are coordinated using a centralized controller and based on its decision the flexibility is harnessed to the grid. The novelty of the approach is that the different agents communicate only to the central controller and not among themselves which reduces the communication among them. The advantage of the proposed approach is their ability to handle DC Nano-grids and using an agent-based approach within a residential building. The proposed multi-agent approach is illustrated on a lab-level DC Nano-grids pilot developed by the authors. Our results show that achieves maximum overall energy efficiency and minimum electricity bill and smooth control of various modes of operation.

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