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Real-Time Object Uniform Design Methodology with UML

This multi-function volume starts off as an ideal basic textbook for teaching object modeling, fundamental concepts learning and system designing with thirteen UML diagrams. But it also contains a whole section devoted to advanced research topics, samples and case studies. It is an essential work for any system developer or graduate student in a discipline that requires the power of object modeling as part of a development methodology.

This multi-function volume starts off as an ideal basic textbook for teaching object modeling, fundamental concepts learning and system designing with thirteen UML diagrams.

Secure Systems Development with UML

Attacks against computer systems can cause considerable economic or physical damage. High-quality development of security-critical systems is difficult, mainly because of the conflict between development costs and verifiable correctness. Jürjens presents the UML extension UMLsec for secure systems development. It uses the standard UML extension mechanisms, and can be employed to evaluate UML specifications for vulnerabilities using a formal semantics of a simplified fragment of UML. Established rules of security engineering can be encapsulated and hence made available even to developers who are not specialists in security. As one example, Jürjens uncovers a flaw in the Common Electronic Purse Specification, and proposes and verifies a correction. With a clear separation between the general description of his approach and its mathematical foundations, the book is ideally suited both for researchers and graduate students in UML or formal methods and security, and for advanced professionals writing critical applications.

With a clear separation between the general description of his approach and its mathematical foundations, the book is ideally suited both for researchers and graduate students in UML or formal methods and security, and for advanced ...

Strategic Management of Universities in the Ibero-America Region

A Comparative Perspective

​This book provides the readers with a map of the higher education systems and strategic management trends in the higher education institutions within countries of the Ibero-America region. The key feature of this volume is the presentation of a conceptual framework as a point of reference for the development of university management systems in a specific context. Furthermore, the book provides an overview of the development of higher education in Latin America and the Caribbean, to advance understanding of the changes observed in the institutional strategic management setting. The book examines and compares the types of strategic management processes used, as well as the models of applicability of strategy-making. This analysis is done by cutting through a critical review of the processes and systems of university management used in the various analysed countries, and pays special attention to the actors involved, the processes, the reporting systems, the expectations and the limitations. Additionally, the book introduces a methodology for the identification and implementation of best practice in university strategic management, and presents practical suggestions about the ways in which processes and models can be used to increase quality and competitive advantage.

The key feature of this volume is the presentation of a conceptual framework as a point of reference for the development of university management systems in a specific context.

Engineering Multi-Agent Systems

First International Workshop, EMAS 2013, St. Paul, MN, USA, May 6-7, 2013, Revised Selected Papers

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems, EMAS 2013, held in St. Paul, MN, USA, in May 2013. The 19 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. The focus of the papers is on following topics: agent-oriented software engineering, declarative agent languages and technologies, and programming multi-agent systems.

First International Workshop, EMAS 2013, St. Paul, MN, USA, May 6-7, 2013,
Revised Selected Papers Massimo Cossentino, Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni,
Michael Winikoff. Applying an O-MaSE Compliant Process to Develop a Holonic
Multiagent System for the Evaluation of Intelligent Power Distribution Systems
Denise Case and Scott DeLoach Department of Computing and Information
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Highlights of Practical Applications of Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Systems - The PAAMS Collection

PAAMS 2014 International Workshops, Salamanca, Spain, June 4-6, 2014. Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the workshops which complemented the 12th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, PAAMS 2014, held in Salamanca, Spain, in June 2014. This volume presents the papers that have been accepted for the following workshops: Workshop on Agent-based Approaches for the Transportation Modeling and Optimization (AATMO 2014); Workshop on Agent-based Modeling and Simulation of Complex Systems: Engineering and Applications (ABSEA 2014); Workshop on Agents and Multi-Agent Systems for Ambient-assisted Living and e-Health (A-HEALTH 2014); Workshop on Agent-based Solutions for Manufacturing and Supply Chain (AMSC 2014); Workshop on Intelligent Systems for Context-based Information Fusion (ISCIF 2014); Workshop on Multi-Agent based Applications for Smart Grids and Sustainable Energy Systems (MASGES 2014); Workshop on Active Security Through Multi-Agent Systems (WASMAS 2014); Workshop on Intelligent Human-Agent Societies (WIHAS 2014).

(Special Issue on Ambient Intelligence) 3(2), 19–25 (2008) Carmichael, A., Rice,
M., MacMillan, F., Kirk, A.: Investigating a DTV-based physical activity application
to facilitate wellbeing in older adults. In: Proceedings of the 24th BCS Interaction
Specialist Group Conference, BCS 2010, Dundee, UK (2010) Doyle, J., Skrba, Z.,
McDonnell, R., Arent, B.: Designing a touch screen communication device to
support social interaction amongst older adults. In: Proceedings of the 24th BCS
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Innovations in Multi-Agent Systems and Application – 1

This book provides an overview of multi-agent systems and several applications that have been developed for real-world problems. Multi-agent systems is an area of distributed artificial intelligence that emphasizes the joint behaviors of agents with some degree of autonomy and the complexities arising from their interactions. Multi-agent systems allow the subproblems of a constraint satisfaction problem to be subcontracted to different problem solving agents with their own interest and goals. This increases the speed, creates parallelism and reduces the risk of system collapse on a single point of failure. Different multi-agent architectures, that are tailor-made for a specific application are possible. They are able to synergistically combine the various computational intelligent techniques for attaining a superior performance. This gives an opportunity for bringing the advantages of various techniques into a single framework. It also provides the freedom to model the behavior of the system to be as competitive or coordinating, each having its own advantages and disadvantages.

Multi-agent systems is a subfield of Distributed Artificial Intelligence that has
experienced rapid growth because of the flexibility and the intelligence available
solve distributed problems. In this chapter, a brief survey of multi-agent systems
has been presented. These encompass different attributes such as architecture,
communication, coordination strategies, decision making and learning abilities.
The goal of this chapter is to provide a quick reference to assist in the design of ...

Massively Multi-Agent Systems I

First International Workshop, MMAS 2004, Kyoto, Japan, December 10-11, 2004, Revised Selected and Invited Papers

In the era of ubiquitous computing and networking, millions of electronic devices with computing facilities in the public space are connected with each other in ad hoc ways, but are required to behave coherently. Massively multi-agent systems, MMAS can be a major design paradigm or an implementation method for ubiquitous computing and ambient intelligence. As the infrastructure of massively multi-agent systems, technologies such as grid computing together with semantic annotation can be combined with agent technology. A new system design approach, society-centered design, may be realized by embedding participatory technologies in human society. This book originates from the First International Workshop on Massively Multi-Agent Systems, MMAS 2004, held in Kyoto, Japan in December 2004. The 25 revised full selected and invited papers give an excellent introduction and overview on massively multi-agent systems. The papers are organized in parts on massively multi-agent technology, teams and organization, ubiquitous computing and ambient intelligence, and massively multi-agent systems in the public space.

First International Workshop, MMAS 2004, Kyoto, Japan, December 10-11, 2004,
Revised Selected and Invited Papers Toru Ishida, Les Gasser, Hideyuki
Nakashima. Exploring Flows in the Intelligent Agent Grid Environment1 Hai
Zhuge China Knowledge Grid Research Group, Institute of Computing
Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China ...

Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications

First KES International Symposium, KES-AMSTA 2007, Wroclaw, Poland, May 31-June 1, 2007, Proceedings

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.

An Intelligent Diversity Scheme for Accurate Positioning of Mobile Agents for U-
City⋆ Junseok Lee and Sekchin Chang Dept. of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, University of Seoul, Seoul, Korea Abstract. Based on ubiquitous
networks, many schemes have been proposed for realization of u-city. For
abundance of u-city services to be available, mobile agents can be utilized in
ubiquitous networks. However, highly accurate positioning is required for the
efficient use of the mobile ...

Multi-Agent Programming:

Languages, Tools and Applications

Multi-Agent Systems are a promising technology to develop the next generation open distributed complex software systems. The main focus of the research community has been on the development of concepts (concerning both mental and social attitudes), architectures, techniques, and general approaches to the analysis and specification of multi-agent systems. This contribution has been fragmented, without any clear way of “putting it all together”, rendering it inaccessible to students and young researchers, non-experts, and practitioners. Successful multi-agent systems development is guaranteed only if we can bridge the gap from analysis and design to effective implementation. Multi-Agent Programming: Languages, Tools and Applications presents a number of mature and influential multi-agent programming languages, platforms, development tools and methodologies, and realistic applications, summarizing the state of the art in an accessible manner for professionals and computer science students at all levels.

The idea to use common sense notions to build programs can be traced back to
the beginnings of Artificial Intelligence. Shoham, who was one of the first to
propose a new programming paradigm that he called agent-oriented
programming, cites McCarthy about the usefulness of ascribing such notions to
machines [29, 39]. One of the first papers on Artificial Intelligence, also written by
McCarthy, is called Programs with Common Sense [28]. It has been realized that
in order to have ...

Organizational Principles for Multi-Agent Architectures

1. 1 Background In this work, we develop a framework for the design of multi-agent systems inspired by (human) organizational principles. Organizations are complex entities formed to ov- come various limitations of individual agencies, such as cognitive, physical, temporal and institutional limitations. There is a parallel between the complexity of organizations and multi-agent systems. Therefore, we explore the use of concepts, methods and techniques from human organizational design as architectural principles for multi-agent systems. Three research lines are presented: organizational modeling and coordination, interop- ability and agent models. Organizational modeling and coordination are concerned with how resources (i. e. agents) can be identi?ed and related to each other. In order to have agents cooperate, several issues of interoperability have to be addressed. Agent models deal with the design of individual intelligent software agents, taking into account typical features of agent intelligence. Every (human) activity raises two challenges: division of labor and coordi- tion [Mintzberg, 1993]. Division of labor is the decomposition of work (or goals) into various distinct tasks. Coordination refers to managing relations between these tasks to carry out the work. The patterns of division of labor, responsibilities (people who do the work), clustering of responsibilities into units and coordination between units can be de?ned by organizational structures [Galbraith, 1973]. The design of an organization should cover how one or more actors are engaged in one or more tasks, where knowledge, capabilities and resources are distributed.

Chapter 4 Five Capabilities Model In this chapter we present the 5 Capabilities (
5C) model which is a conceptual framework for analyzing and designing the
capabilities of an intelligent agent. The 5C model defines five dimensions of
agent intelligence - using the notion of separation of concerns - where each
dimension plays a role in the development of intelligent software agents. These
dimensions are communication, competence, self, planner and environment. The
company ...