  The paper addresses modular hierarchical design (composition) of a management
system for smart homes. The management system consists of security subsystem
(access control, alarm control), comfort subsystem (temperature, etc.),
intelligence subsystem (multimedia, houseware). The design solving process is
based on Hierarchical Morphological Multicriteria Design (HMMD) approach: (1)
design of a tree-like system model, (2) generation of design alternatives for
leaf nodes of the system model, (3) Bottom-Up process: (i) multicriteria
selection of design alternatives for system parts/components and (ii) composing
the selected alternatives into a resultant combination (while taking into
account ordinal quality of the alternatives above and their compatibility). A
realistic numerical example illustrates the design process of a management
system for smart homes.
