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- Akkermans, Hans, et al.
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An Integrated Structured Analysis Approach to Intelligent Agent Communication
- 1998
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Intelligent multi-agent systems offer promising approaches for knowledge-intensive distributed applications. Now that such systems are becoming applied on a wider industrial scale, there is a practical need for structured analysis and design methods, similarly as exist for more conventional information and knowledge systems. This is still lacking for intelligent agent software. In this paper, we describe how the process of agent communication specification can be carried out through a structured analysis approach. The structured analysis approach we propose is an integrated extension of the CommonKADS methodology, a widely used standard for knowledge analysis and systems development. Our approach is based on and illustrated by a large-scale multi-agent application for distributed energy load management in industries and households, called Homebots, which is discussed as an extensive industrial case study.
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- Akkermans, Hans, et al.
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Homebots : Intelligent Decentralized Services for Energy Management
- 1996
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The deregulation of the European energy market, combined with emerging ad-vanced capabilities of information technology, provides strategic opportunities for new knowledge-oriented services on the power grid. HOMEBOTS is the name we have coined for one of these innovative services: decentralized power load management at the customer side, automatically carried out by a ‘society’ of interactive house-hold, industrial and utility equipment. They act as independent intelligent agents that communicate and negotiate in a computational market economy. The knowl-edge and competence aspects of this application are discussed, using an improved version of task analysis according to the COMMONKADS knowledge methodology. Illustrated by simulation results, we indicate how customer knowledge can be mo-bilized to achieve joint goals of cost and energy savings. General implications for knowledge creation and its management are discussed.
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- Akkermans, Hans, et al.
(författare)
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Pragmatics of Agent Communication
- 1998
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The process of agent communication modeling has not yet received much attention in the knowledge systems area. Conventional knowledge systems are rather simple with respect to their communication structure: often it is a straightforward question-and-answer sequence between system and end user. However, this is different in recent intelligent multi-agent systems. Therefore, agent communication aspects are now in need of a much more advanced treatment in knowledge management, acquisition and modeling. In general, a much better integration between the respective achievements of multi-agent and knowledge-based systems modeling is an important research goal. In this paper, we describe how agent communications can be specified as an extension of well-known knowledge modeling techniques. The emphasis is on showing how a structured process of communication requirements analysis proceeds, based on existing results from agent communication languages. The guidelines proposed are illustrated by and based on a large-scale industrial multi-agent application for distributed energy load management in industries and households, called Homebots. Homebots enable cost savings in energy consumption by coordinating their actions through an auction mechanism.
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- Brazier, Frances, et al.
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Compositional Design and Verification of a Multi-Agent System for One-to-Many Negotiation
- 1998
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- A compositional verification method for multi-agent systems is presented and applied to a multi-agent system for one-to-many negotiation in the domain of load balancing of electricity use. Advantages of the method are that the complexity of the verification process is managed by compositionality, and that part of the proofs can be reused in relation to reuse of components.
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- Gustavsson, Rune
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Agents with power
- 1999
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Ingår i: Communications of the ACM. - NEW YORK : ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. - 0001-0782 .- 1557-7317. ; 42:3, s. 41-47
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)
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- Gustavsson, Rune
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Agents with power
- 1999
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Ingår i: Communications of the ACM. - 0001-0782 .- 1557-7317. ; 42:3, s. 41-47
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Multi-agent systems applied to energy/smart houses applications
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- Gustavsson, Rune
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Multi Agent Systems as Open Societies
- 1998
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Proposes a society-level (SoL) view of multi-agent systems. The purposes of a SoL approach are to give: (1) a basis for a principled design methodology of industry-scale multi-agent systems based on and extending the CommonKADS methodology; (2) a structure-preserving mapping of the SoL on to emergent technologies for distributed components and network-centric computations (this mapping provides a semantic grounding of concepts at the SoL); and (3) a framework for the assessment of techniques and methodologies as well as of the foundations of multi-agent systems.
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- Gustavsson, Rune
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Smart equipment creating new electronic business opportunities
- 1999
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Ongoing deregulation of energy markets together with emergent Information and Communication Technologies totally changes the business processes for utilities. They have to change from selling a commodity such as kWh to build up new business relations based on user defined added value services. These topics have been in focus of an international project ISES. We report on some lessons learned from ISES and future work to guide utilities in the ongoing transformation. We claim that smart communicating equipment on the electric grid provides important building blocks in creation of future value added services and products. To emphasise the importance of web-based technologies, we denote these services and products as eServices and eProducts.
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