本論文中提出了一個以代理人為基礎的智慧家庭系統(Agent-based Smart Home System)，它可提供家庭成員自動化的家庭服務。ABS Home系統中包含使用者介面、家庭閘道與家庭相關的子系統三大部份。ABS Home的使用者可以使用手持式設備透過HTTP、GPRS和藍芽等方式與系統連線。ABS Home提供服務能力是由代理人共同合作的機制達成的，我們在代理人平台上設計並且實作了三種不同的代理人：Manager Agent負責對服務做排程、Service Agent負責實行被要求的服務、Task Agent負責執行服務內的各種功能。ABS Home採用了通用隨插即用(UPnP)為家庭與建築物內的主要控制技術，UPnP透過IP網路可以達到控制和管理智慧家庭內的設備並在設備之間傳送資料。ABS Home的家庭相關的子系統包括UPnP Interaction，Location Server，Message Center與Multimedia Center等子系統。只要輕鬆地操作就可以方便地、有效地提供服務給使用者。為了增加系統提供服務的穩定性，我們在系統中加入了服務回復機制，並利用數學model的方式作分析，企圖找出使服務更穩定、效能更好的參數設定。我們實作ABS Home系統可以証明我們提出的架構是可行的，效能分析也證實了我們提出的系統能有效運作。

　This paper proposes an Agent-Based Smart (ABS) home system which automates home service operations. The ABS home system includes three subsystems, which are user interface, ABS home gateway and home functionality subsystem. ABS home users can demand services with handheld devices through ABS user interface, such as HTTP, GPRS and Bluetooth connections. The home services provided by ABS home are based on agent platform. Three types of agents are designed and implemented in the agent platform: manager agent schedules the service processes, service agent handles service requests, and task agent executes service operations. With home functionality subsystems including location server, message center and multimedia center in ABS home, services are conveniently-provided, efficient, and comfortably-manipulated. The Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) adopts IP network technology to control, manage, and transfer data among functionality devices in the smart home. A service recovery mechanism is presented for decreasing the executing cost and the system performance is improved. The mathematic analysis of the task cost helps to the parameter setting for system stabilization. An implementation of the ABS home system is introduced said to be an illustration of the feasibility of the proposed architecture. The performance evaluation is conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed mechanism.

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