Software Agent Technology

2009 ◽  
pp. 128-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chrysanthi E. Georgakarakou ◽  
Anastasios A. Economides
Keyword(s):  
Reference Point ◽  
Software Agents ◽  
Large Body ◽  
Software Agent ◽  
Agent Technology ◽  
Virtual Enterprises ◽  
Research Activity ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Current Research Activity ◽  
Key Issues

This chapter provides an overview of the rapidly evolving area of software agents and presents the basic aspects of applying the agent technology to virtual enterprises (VE). As the field of software agents can appear chaotic, this chapter briefly introduces the key issues rather than present an in-depth analysis and critique of the field. In addition to, this chapter investigates the application of agent technology to virtual enterprises and presents current research activity that focuses on this field serving as an introductory step. Furthermore, this chapter makes a list of the most important themes concerning software agents and the application of agent technology to virtual enterprises apposing some order and consistency and serve as a reference point to a large body of literature.

Software Agent Technology

2008 ◽  
pp. 1-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chrysanthi E. Georgakarakou ◽  
Anastasios A. Economides
Keyword(s):  
Reference Point ◽  
Software Agents ◽  
Large Body ◽  
Software Agent ◽  
Agent Technology ◽  
Virtual Enterprises ◽  
Research Activity ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Current Research Activity ◽  
Key Issues

This chapter provides an overview of the rapidly evolving area of software agents and presents the basic aspects of applying the agent technology to virtual enterprises (VE). As the field of software agents can appear chaotic, this chapter briefly introduces the key issues rather than present an in-depth analysis and critique of the field. In addition to, this chapter investigates the application of agent technology to virtual enterprises and presents current research activity that focuses on this field serving as an introductory step. Furthermore, this chapter makes a list of the most important themes concerning software agents and the application of agent technology to virtual enterprises apposing some order and consistency and serve as a reference point to a large body of literature.

scholarly journals Software agents: Languages, tools, platforms

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Costin Bădică ◽  
Zoran Budimac ◽  
Hans-Dieter Burkhard ◽  
Mirjana Ivanovic
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Reference Point ◽  
Software Agents ◽  
Large Body ◽  
Software Agent ◽  
Agent Technology ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Developing Area

The main goal of this paper is to provide an overview of the rapidly developing area of software agents serving as a reference point to a large body of literature and to present the key concepts of software agent technology, especially agent languages, tools and platforms. Special attention is paid on significant languages designed and developed in order to support implementation of agent-based systems and their applications in different domains. Afterwards, in the paper a number of useful and practically used tools and platforms that are available and support activities or phases of the process of agent-oriented software development are presented.

Software Agents in Electronic Commerce

2001 ◽  
pp. 75-87
Author(s):  
Maria Indrawan
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Commerce ◽  
Software Agents ◽  
Software Agent ◽  
Agent Technology ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
Is Security

The explosive growth of Internet-based electronic commerce has increased the consumer’s choices of goods and merchants. To find a suitable good and merchant with acceptable sales terms is a very tedious task. Agent technologies promise to simplify these tasks for consumers. This chapter presents an overview of electronic commerce systems based on software agent technology. A survey of current existing and prototype systems are presented. One of essential requirements of a successful e-commerce system is security measurement. This paper also discusses security issues related to implementing agent-based e-commerce.

Agent technology in communications systems: an overview

1999 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 341-375 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALEX L. G. HAYZELDEN ◽  
JOHN BIGHAM
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Agents ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Software Agents ◽  
Software Agent ◽  
Agent Technology ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Distributed Software ◽  
Management Framework ◽  
The Third ◽  
Communications Systems

Telecommunications infrastructures are a natural application domain for the distributed software agent paradigm. The authors clarify the potential application of software agent technology in legacy and future communications systems, and provide an overview of publicly available research on software agents used for communications management. The authors focus on the intelligent agent type of software agent, although the paper also reviews the reasons why mobile agents have made an impact in this domain. The author's objective is to describe some of the intricacies of using the software agent approach for the management of communications systems. The paper is in four main sections. The first section provides a brief introduction to software agent technology. The second section considers general problems of network management and the reasons why software agents may provide a suitable solution. The third section reviews some selected research on agents in a telecommunications management framework. The final section concludes the paper by discussing some of the problems encountered and some future directions for further research.

scholarly journals How automated feedback from a digital mathematics textbook affects primary students’ conceptual development: two case studies

ZDM ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian Rezat
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Conceptual Development ◽  
Large Body ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Mathematics Textbooks ◽  
School Students ◽  
Mathematics Textbook ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Probability Task ◽  
Automated Feedback

AbstractOne of the most prevalent features of digital mathematics textbooks, compared to traditional ones, is the provision of automated feedback on students’ solutions. Since feedback is regarded as an important factor that influences learning, this is often seen as an affordance of digital mathematics textbooks. While there is a large body of mainly quantitative research on the effectiveness of feedback in general, very little is known about how feedback actually affects students’ individual content specific learning processes and conceptual development. A theoretical framework based on Rabardel’s theory of the instrument and Vergnaud’s theory of conceptual fields is developed to study qualitatively how feedback actually functions in the learning process. This framework was applied in a case study of two elementary school students’ learning processes when working on a probability task from a German 3rd grade digital textbook. The analysis allowed detailed reconstruction of how students made sense of the information provided by the feedback and adjusted their behavior accordingly. This in-depth analysis unveiled that feedback does not necessarily foster conceptual development in the desired way, and a correct solution does not always coincide with conceptual understanding. The results point to some obstacles that students face when working individually on tasks from digital mathematics textbooks with automated feedback, and indicate that feedback needs to be developed in design-based research cycles in order to yield the desired effects.

Applied Mechanics Problems in the Oil and Gas Industry

1986 ◽  
Vol 39 (11) ◽  
pp. 1687-1696 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Claude Roegiers
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Petroleum Industry ◽  
Oil Industry ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Production Equipment ◽  
Paper Briefly ◽  
Research Activity ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Well Production ◽  
Current Research Activity

The petroleum industry offers a broad spectrum of problems that falls within the domain of expertise of mechanical engineers. These problems range from the design of well production equipment to the evaluation of formation responses to production and stimulation. This paper briefly describes various aspects and related difficulties with which the oil industry has to deal, from the time the well is spudded until the field is abandoned. It attempts to delineate the problems, to outline the approaches presently used, and to discuss areas where additional research is needed. Areas of current research activity also are described; whenever appropriate, typical or pertinent case histories are used to illustrate a point.

A Dynamic-Programming-Styled Algorithm for a Class of Multi-Agent Optimal Task Assignment

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guang Yang ◽  
Vikram Kapila ◽  
Ravi Vaidyanathan
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Programming ◽  
Task Assignment ◽  
Research Activity ◽  
Spacecraft Formation ◽  
Assignment Algorithm ◽  
Decentralized Decision Making ◽  
Current Research Activity ◽  
Multi Agent ◽  
Global Optimal ◽  
Multiple Spacecraft

Abstract In this paper, we use a dynamic programming formulation to address a class of multi-agent task assignment problems that arise in the study of fuel optimal control of multiple agents. The fuel optimal multi-agent control is highly relevant to multiple spacecraft formation reconfiguration, an area of intense current research activity. Based on the recurrence relation derived from the celebrated principle of optimality, we develop an algorithm with a distributed computational architecture for the global optimal task assignment. In addition, we propose a communication protocol to facilitate decentralized decision making among agents. Illustrative studies are included to demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed multi-agent optimal task assignment algorithm.

Negotiation by Software Agents in Electronic Business

2013 ◽  
pp. 327-349
Author(s):  
Nosheen Riaz ◽  
Moez Rehman
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language ◽  
Software Agents ◽  
Software Agent ◽  
Negotiation Process ◽  
Electronic Business ◽  
Semantic Web Technology ◽  
Human Agent ◽  
Business Contract ◽  
Business Negotiations ◽  
Language Content

Electronic negotiation is one of many applications that software agents can perform to facilitate electronic business. Negotiations between software agents and humans (hybrid negotiation), can make electronic business efficient and intelligent. It can save time, effort and other valueable resources by replacing the human in electronic business activities and many other domains. However, to enable hybrid negotiation, a software agent needs clear machine interpretable semantics to understand and generate natural language content. Although it is not simple to make natural language content understandable by software agents as a whole, it can be achieved in different domains--in this case electronic business. For this purpose, an example of hybrid negotiation is presented, in which a software agent and a human agent negotiate for a business contract. Problems involved in this negotiation process are partially resolved through ontologies (the main Semantic Web technology), NSS (negotiation support system) and hand written rules.

Software Agent Technology for Supporting Ad Hoc Virtual Enterprises

2011 ◽  
pp. 306-333
Author(s):  
Jarogniew Rykowski
Keyword(s):  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Wide Spectrum ◽  
Software Agents ◽  
Just In Time ◽  
Virtual Enterprises ◽  
Local Data ◽  
Modern Business ◽  
Business Collaboration ◽  
Information Interchange ◽  
Business Requirements

This chapter introduces a new idea of using software agents for supporting ad hoc virtual enterprises and similar forms of temporal business-to-business collaboration. It seems that current information and telecommunication technologies, based on information interchange and local data processing, are not flexible enough to deal with modern business requirements, especially dynamic and temporal business relations, heterogeneity of hardware, software and communication means, and data complexity. The proposed approach differs in the distribution of both data and programs for data treatment at-the-place and just-in-time. The distributed and remotely executed programs, software agents, are autonomous entities, targeted on obtaining preprogrammed goals, and working in the name and under the authority of their owners. The authors hope that the proposed techniques for agent preparation, distribution, and execution make the whole system safe and secure, providing an efficient environment for a wide spectrum of temporal and ad hoc business collaboration.

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