Managing Adaptive Versatile Environments

The goal of the MavHome project is to develop technologies to manage adaptive versatile environments. In this paper, we present a complete agent architecture for a single inhabitant intelligent environment and discuss the development, deployment, and techniques utilized in our working intelligent environments. Empirical evaluation of our approach has proven its effectiveness at reducing inhabitant interactions by 72.2%

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