Agent-based Information System Research Articles

Interaction Multi-Agent Models' Automatic Alignment with MDA Higher Abstraction Level

With the massive growth of the software sector as well as the erratic needs of end users, agent-based information systems and Model Driven Architecture (MDA) approach are among the liveliest and significant fields of experimentation and improvement to emerge in the recent decade. In this vein, we suggest in this research an innovative method that automates the construction and the generation processes of the interaction multi-agent models from the business requirements engineering models at the MDA highest abstraction levels. So, our defiance is to align the Agent Modeling Language (AML) Communicative Interaction diagram with the E3value model dealing with the MDA approach. The ATLAS-Transformation Language (ATL) is applied to automate the model alignment process. The goal is to reduce project effort, time, and development costs as all alignment process is automatically done, boosting the chances of being more competitive in the software business.

Principles of life quality monitoring based on agent-oriented models

This article presents results of a study on agent-based models, which are employed to simulate socioeconomic systems using supercomputer technologies and geographic information systems. Foreign and domestic experience on controlling the development of socioeconomic space as a socioeconomic system is generalized. By reviewing international experience in assessing the performance of management systems, including control of socioeconomic systems, the content of the notions agent-based models and geographic information systems and their actors and subjects are analyzed. By the example of agent-based models, developed with the participation of the authors of this article, the characteristic features of their implementation are specified on the basis of geographic information systems.

Agent-Based Information System for Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Deployment

AbstractThe current scarcity of public charging infrastructure is one of the major barriers to mass household adoption of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs). Although most PEV drivers can recharge th...

Towards a satisfactory conversion of messages among agent-based information systems

Over the last years, there has been a change of perspective concerning the management of information systems, since they are no longer isolated and need to communicate with others. However, from a semantic point of view, real communication is difficult to achieve due to the heterogeneity of the systems. We present a proposal which, considering information systems are represented by software agents, provides a framework that favors a semantic communication among them, overcoming the heterogeneity of their agent communication languages. The main components of the framework are a suite of ontologies – conceptualizing communication acts – that will be used for generating the communication conversion, and an Event Calculus interpretation of the communications, which will be used for formalizing the notion of a satisfactory conversion. Moreover, we present a motivating example in order to complete the explanation of the whole picture.

Towards Fractal Approach in Healthcare Information Systems: A Review

Recently, traditional information systems need adaption capabilities in order to overcome modifications and maintains of external environment. For that, researchers proposed many solutions from the Fractal method to improve the flexibility and quick adaptive of the system. Computer Information System, as widely used systems, needs modifications and adaptations to real changes. The most important action is to circulate and updating new data and information among the hosts in agent-based information systems. This paper presents the review of using features of fractal method to solve many problems in different fields. The paper is also suggesting employing fractal features for improving the flexibility and adaption of Healthcare Information System (HIS).

Interoperation among agent-based information systems through a communication acts ontology

Information technology is evolving from focusing on local systems to encompassing a more global interaction among multiple systems in enterprises and communities. On the one hand, new advances in the area of network communications have facilitated in some way the intercommunication among heterogeneous information systems located at different places. However, what is still missing is the possibility of a real and efficient interoperation among those systems in an open environment as the one favoured by Internet. On the other hand, agent technology provides platforms where cooperative work of information systems is concernable because of the software agents working on behalf of these information systems. But, nowadays that cooperation is in general restricted and requires a laborious a priori preparation. In this paper we present the features of a formal ontology that can play a relevant role in the development of a new kind of information systems interoperation frameworks. The ontology includes classes and properties for describing communication acts among agents. We claim that the communication acts ontology provides interoperability support due to the recognition of communication acts from one Agent Communication Language ( acl) as instances of communication acts in another acl. Sometimes the comprehension will not be complete, but partial comprehension of the communication may be useful and preferable to the “not understood” answer given nowadays. Terms of the ontology are described as classes or properties using the Web Ontology Language owl.

A Concise Route to Racemic Anatoxin a from Cycloocta-1,5-diene

To meet changing needs of customers and to survive in the increasingly globalised and competitive environment, it is necessary for companies to equip themselves with intelligent tools, thereby enabling managerial levels to use the tactical decision in a better way. However, the implementation of an intelligent system is always a challenge in Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). Therefore, a new and simple approach with 'process rethinking' ability is proposed to generate ongoing process improvements over time. In this paper, a roadmap of the development of an agent-based information system is described. A case example has also been provided to show how the system can assist non-specialists, for example, managers and engineers to make right decisions for a continual process improvement. Copyright © 2006 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.

Design and development of an agent-based information system for process improvement

To meet changing needs of customers and to survive in the increasingly globalised and competitive environment, it is necessary for companies to equip themselves with intelligent tools, thereby enabling managerial levels to use the tactical decision in a better way. However, the implementation of an intelligent system is always a challenge in Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). Therefore, a new and simple approach with 'process rethinking' ability is proposed to generate ongoing process improvements over time. In this paper, a roadmap of the development of an agent-based information system is described. A case example has also been provided to show how the system can assist non-specialists, for example, managers and engineers to make right decisions for a continual process improvement.

Agent-based information systems and solutions in business: an introduction to the special issue

Agent-based information systems and solutions in business: an introduction to the special issue

The agent-based collaboration information system of product development

Businesses are undergoing a major paradigm shift, moving from traditional management into a world of agile organizations and processes. An agile corporation should be able to rapidly respond to market changes. For this reason, corporations have been seeking to develop numerous information technology systems to assist with the information management of their business processes. Many of the on-coming new business processes may contain embedded agent-based information systems. Agent technology looks set to radically alter not only the way in which the computers interact, but also the way complex processes, e.g., product development, are conceptualized and built. This paper proposes an agent-based system of collaborative information and a solution procedure for designing with modules to develop modular products. This approach aims to address the research issue: “ How can modular product development be carried out through the intelligent agents of the collaboration information system to meet a customer's requirements using modules that come from suppliers that are geographically separated and operate on differing computer platforms?”

Ontology and Terminology Servers in Agent-based Health-care Information Systems

A new research paradigm is emerging based on the multi-agent system architectural framework, allowing human and software agents to interoperate and thus cooperate within common application areas. Within a multi-agent system, the different "views of the world" of knowledgeable agents are to be bridged through their commitment to common ontologies and terminologies. We developed a general methodology for the design or integration of new components into a Health-care Information System conceived as a network of software and human agents. In our view, ontological and terminological services are entrusted to dedicated agents, namely ontology and terminology servers, allowing the configuration of suitable application ontologies for distributed applications. The role is described that such servers, operatively coordinated in order to preserve semantic coherence, should play within a distributed Health-care Information System.