Grzech Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications

First KES International Symposium, KES-AMSTA 2007, Wroclaw, Poland, May 31-June 1, 2007, Proceedings
2007
ISBN: 978-3-540-72830-6
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 4496, 1068 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Lecture Notes in Computer Science

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Symposium on Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications, KES-AMSTA 2007, held in Wroclaw, Poland in May/June 2007. Coverage includes agent-oriented Web applications, mobility aspects of agent systems, agents for network management, agent approaches to robotic systems, as well as intelligent and secure agents for digital content management.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grzech, Adam

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Main Track: Methodological Aspects of Agent Systems.- On the Integration of Agent-Based and Mathematical Optimization Techniques.- Building Agent Service Oriented Multi-Agent Systems.- Agent–Based Approach for LabVIEW Developed Distributed Control Systems.- Pr : A Belief Description Logic.- Reinforcement Learning on a Futures Market Simulator.- The Effects of Agent Synchronization in Asynchronous Search Algorithms.- Modelling Social Attitudes of Agents.- Modeling the Activity of a Multiagent System with Evolving Metadata.- Software Component Selection Algorithm Using Intelligent Agents.- A Methodology to Specify Multiagent Systems.- A Stochastic Process Model for Daily Travel Patterns and Traffic Information.- Using Data Mining Algorithms for Statistical Learning of a Software Agent.- Expressivity of STRIPS-Like and HTN-Like Planning.- Implementation and Performance Evaluation of the Agent-Based Algorithm for ANN Training.- Agent-Based Discovery Middleware Supporting Interoperability in Ubiquitous Environments.- Performance of Fast TCP in Multi-agent Systems.- Manipulating Paraconsistent Knowledge in Multi-agent Systems.- Consensus-Based Evaluation Framework for Cooperative Information Retrieval Systems.- Hierarchy of Logics of Irrational and Conflicting Agents.- Stratified Multi-agent HTN Planning in Dynamic Environments.- Main Track: Agent-oriented Web Applications.- WSrep: A Novel Reputation Model for Web Services Selection.- Performance Evaluation of Mobile Agents for Knowledge-Based Web Information Services.- An Agent Based Method for Web Page Prediction.- X-Binder: Path Combining System of XML Documents Based on RDBMS.- A Digital TV Agent System for Broadcast and Web Information Hybrid.- Formal Modeling of Agent-Based English Auctions Using Finite State Process Algebra.- Wiki-News Interface Agent Based on AIS Methods.- Retrieving Geospatial Information into a Web-Mapping Application Using Geospatial Ontologies.- MWING: A Multiagent System for Web Site Measurements.- Application of Agent-Based Personal Web of Trust to Local Document Ranking.- Main Track: Mobility Aspects of Agent Systems and Ontology Management.- Non-repudiation Mechanism of Agent-Based Mobile Payment Systems: Perspectives on Wireless PKI.- Agent-Based Data Compression Supporting Knowledge Discovery in Mobile Environment.- eMARP: Enhanced Mobile Agent for RFID Privacy Protection and Forgery Detection.- Ontology Agent Based Rule Base Fuzzy Cognitive Maps.- OWL-DL Based Ontology Inference Engine Assessment for Context-Aware Services.- Main Track: Multi-agent Resource Allocation.- Multi-resource Load Optimization Strategy in Agent-Based Systems.- Online Network Resource Management for QoS-Sensitive Multimedia Services.- A Resource Discovery Method Based on Multi-agents in P2P Systems.- Agent Based Dynamic Data Storage and Distribution in Data Warehouses.- Semantic Data Integration in P2P Environment Using Schema Mappings and Agent Technology.- Intelligent Resource Allocation–Solutions and Pathways in a Workforce Planning Problem.- A Multi-agent Architecture for Designing and Simulating Large Scale Wireless Systems Resource Allocation.- Main Track: Negotiating Agents.- Towards an Agent-Based Negotiation Platform for Cooperative Decision-Making in Construction Supply Chain.- A Model for Informed Negotiating Agents.- Power in Norm Negotiation.- Quantitative Analysis of Single-Level Single-Mediator Multi-agent Systems.- Software Agent Negotiation for Service Composition.- Main Track: Agents for Network Management.- A Misuse Detection Agent for Intrusion Detection in a Multi-agent Architecture.- An Agent System for Bandwidth Allocation in Reservation-Based Networks Using Evolutionary Computing and Vickrey Auctions.- Multiagent Approach to Network Traffic Anomalies Uncertainty Level Assessment in Distributed Intrusion Detection System.- An Algorithm for Loopless Optimum Paths Finding Agent System and Its Application to Multimodal Public Transit Network.- A Channel Sounding Scheme of MIMO-OFDM System for Intelligent Area Network.- Wireless Intelligent LBT Agents for Common Frequency Band Efficiency.- Verification of Mobile Agent Network Simulator.- The Study of Multi-agent Network Flow Architecture for Application Performance Evaluation.- Main Track: Agent Approaches to Robotic Systems.- Robotic Agent Control Based on Adaptive Intelligent Algorithm in Ubiquitous Networks.- Saving Energy Consumption of Multi-robots Using Higher-Order Mobile Agents.- A Plan-Based Control Architecture for Intelligent Robotic Agents.- Remarks on Behaviours Programming of the Interactive Therapeutic Robot Koala Based on Fuzzy Logic Techniques.- Design of Admissible Schedules for AGV Systems with Constraints: A Logic-Algebraic Approach.- Main Track: Market Agents and other Applications.- Design and Implementation of Efficient Directory Facilitator for Context-Aware Service Discovery.- The CrocodileAgent: Designing a Robust Trading Agent for Volatile E-Market Conditions.- A Study to Apply Intelligent Agents for B2C Shopping Mall.- Password-Only Authenticated Key Exchange Between Two Agents in the Four-Party Setting.- Diagnostic Knowledge Acquisition for Agent-Based Medical Applications.- Remote Control Multi-Agent System for u-Healthcare Service.- A Block Based Moving Object Detection Utilizing the Distribution of Noise.- Multi-Agent System for Hierarchical Control with Self-organising Database.- Doctoral Track.- Water Floating Self-assembling Agents.- Failure Detection Service for Large Scale Systems.- Container Handling Using Multi-agent Architecture.- Distributed Code and Data Propagation Algorithm for Longest Common Subsequence Problem Solving.- Special Session: Mobile Agent Application and its Development.- Design and Evaluation of a Converting Patching Agent for VOD Services.- A Self-organizing Cluster Agent for Routing Algorithm in Wireless Sensor Networks.- Design of Intelligence Mobile Agent Lifecycle for the Progress Management and Mobile Computing.- An Agent Environment for Contextualizing Folksonomies in a Triadic Context.- Design of Knowledge Discovery Agent for a Bit-Map on Ad Hoc Mobile Networks.- Mobile Collaboration Framework for u-Healthcare Agent Services and Its Application Using PDAs.- Developing Load Balancing System for RFID Middlewares Using Mobile Agent Technology.- Design Agent for the Reliable Web Security Requirement Control.- Design and Implementation of an Intelligent Robot Agent System Considering the Server’s Workload.- WANT: A Personal Knowledge Management System on Social Software Agent Technologies.- Mobile Agents Using Data Mining for Diagnosis Support in Ubiquitous Healthcare.- Agent-Based Approach to Distributed Ensemble Learning of Fuzzy ARTMAP Classifiers.- Framework for Data Aggregation and Insurance Service in Vehicle Telematics Using Multi-agents.- Special Session: Agent on Networked Media and Its Applications on Next-Generation Convergence Network (ANM07).- Business Model and Comparasion of S/W Source Code vs. Digital License for IPRs.- PKG-MIB: Private-Mib for Package-Based Linux Systems in a Large Scale Management Domain.- Performance of TPR*-Trees for Predicting Future Positions of Moving Objects in U-Cities.- Strategy of Positioning for LBS on U-Campus.- Indirect DiffServ QoS for SIP in Broadband Access Networks.- An Intelligent Positioning Scheme for Mobile Agents in Ubiquitous Networks for U-City.- A User Interface for Controlling Information Appliances in Smart Homes.- A Design of the Simulator for Web-Based Load Balancing.- Remote Control of Smart Homes Using Korean Natural Language Processing.- A VDS Based Traffic Accident Prediction Analysis and Future Application.- An Intelligent Diversity Scheme for Accurate Positioning of Mobile Agents for U-City.- A Relay-Transmission of the RFID Tag ID over the Wireless and TCP/IP with a Security Agent.- An Agent-Based Web Service Composition Using Semantic Information and QoS.- Special Session: Intelligent and Secure Agent for Digital Content Management.- Traffic Signal Planning Using a Smart Agent System.- Entity Based Message Authentication System.- The Design and Testing of Automated Signature Generation Engine for Worms Detection.- Data Conversion Agents Between Heterogeneous Using IC Information.- User Adaptive Game Characters Using Decision Trees and FSMs.- A Location-Aware Error Control Scheme of Route Multicast for Moving Agents.- Blur Detection of Digital Forgery Using Mathematical Morphology.- An Efficient Authentication Protocol for Low-Cost RFID Systems.- A Countermeasure of Fake Root Key Installation Using One-Time Hash Chain.- Proposal for a Ubiquitous Virtual Enterprise Reference Model on Next-Generation Convergence Network.- The Hiding of Secret Data Using the Run Length Matching Method.- Agent-Based Connection Control for Digital Content Service.

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Agent–Based Approach for LabVIEW Developed Distributed Control Systems (p. 21-22)

Grzegorz Polaków and Mieczys³aw Metzger
Faculty of Automatic Control, Electronics and Computer Science, Silesian University of Technology, Akademicka 16, 44–100 Gliwice, Poland

Abstract. Idea of networked software agents is particularly popular in the field of information sciences dealing with distributed content, whereas in industrial automation its use is usually limited to manufacturing systems. This work presents a concept of multi–agent networked system for automation of continuous processes. Some properties of typical software agent (i.e. advanced high level languages and social skills) had to be dropped in exchange for determinism and satisfying time performance in negotiations between network– connected control components. The proposed environment is National Instruments LabVIEW, very popular solution for automation and measurement. LabVIEW is equipped with advanced data acquisition tools and is capable of artificial intelligence methods, although it lacks agentification mechanisms. A framework is presented, providing LabVIEW the required functionality. Keywords: multiagent–based networking, producer–distributor–consumer, distributed control systems, process control, systems integration.

1 Introduction

There is strong ongoing progress in the field of agent–based technologies. The theory proved its usefulness and commercial interest in its applications boosted rapidly, resulting in countless implementations, especially in the most popular environment of distributed content i.e. World Wide Web [1], [2]. However, process of adaptation and implementation of the original idea in automation and control science is not so successful and varies greatly depending on subject. On the one hand, natural entity based structure of software agencies reflects perfectly processes occurring in manufacturing systems and already proved its usability in that field, overtaking classical approaches [3]. On the other hand, in the automation of continuous processes it is hard to tie agents to non–discrete physical phenomena like flow of liquids, gases or heat. In this case agents have rather to be bound to logical structure of control system. Great implementation of such agent–based frameworks in continuous plants was done by van Breemen and de Vries [4]. Their works are a significant contribution inttroducing agents theory in the field of process automation, however they overlook important issue, that is implementation of theory in existing physical plants and systems. Solving this issue is significant and non–trivial, since while there is wide choice of frameworks for developing intelligent agents in abstract knowledge environments, there is no ready solution for agentification of spatially distributed control systems. Specific requirement, needed to be fulfilled by software to be usable in the field of data acquisition and control, is easy and unproblematic integration of logical software layer with physical hardware of control instrumentation. One of applications fulfilling this requirement, therefore suitable for the task, is National Instruments’ LabVIEW.

LabVIEW is a very popular software development solution for engineers. A programming language which LabVIEW implements is simple yet powerful graphical language based on functional block diagrams, often called a "G language". Capabilities of the NI LV are the same as capabilities of any other classical text– based programming language. It also includes a wide set of predefined function blocks providing functionalities useful in advanced software, i.e.:

- artificial intelligence tools (neural networks and fuzzy logic),
- basic functions of a desktop computer’s operational system’s network protocol stack,
- control instrumentation connectibility (using standards like OPC, and proprietary protocols like Logos),
- rich Human–Machine Interfaces and visualisation tools.

As it can be concluded from the above list, internal agent’s intelligence can easily be programmed by an end user using library of components supplied by default. However, it was necessary to design a protocol for agents communication and build a required framework supporting it. A new potential of continuous control systems gained by agentification at control loop layer turned out to be unprecedented, which was motivation to describe it in detail. Concept of networked multiagent system for continuous process control (including structure of the framework, communication protocols and language of agents) is an original contribution.