Intelligent Interactive Technology
Intelligent Networked Digital Appliances
Networking is already present among many of the office appliances (e.g., computers, printers, copiers, fax-machines, etc.). It is expected that in the near future, various home appliances will also be connected with each other through some sort of home network, providing more functionality to the users. To take the full advantage of new functionality, the users will require more intelligent support in operating and controlling networked multimedia appliances.
Intelligent multi-agent technology, developed in our group, provides a framework where users and appliances can be modelled as software agents, co-operating and collaborating to achieve desired outcomes.
From a public disclosure on our recent project: "Intelligent Agent Technology for Networked Multimedia Appliances" (1999 - 2000):
"CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences (CMIS) and Canon Information Systems Research Australia (CISRA) are working together to develop an intelligent agents system for networked multimedia appliances. The main aim is to provide a customisable user support in operating and controlling a flexible and changing network of multimedia appliances, while satisfying several (possibly conflicting) users’ preferences, with the minimal users’ inputs. Intelligent multi-agent technology provides a framework where the users and appliances can be modelled as software agents that co-operate and collaborate to achieve desired outcomes. It involves autonomous users’ profiling, automated reasoning techniques and generalisation-based learning in a Situation-Action-Task-Plan (SATP) hierarchical agent architecture."
This work was commercial-in-confidence. The developed algorithms for learning, reasoning and planning as well as the novel multi-agent system have been patented in Australia, Japan and the U.S.
To toplast updated
March 15, 2005 11:52 AM
Mikhail.Prokopenko@cmis.csiro.au