Coordination and Organisational Mechanisms Applied to the Development of a Dynamic, Context-aware Information Service

A multi-agent system design-methodology is used to address the highly dynamic, regulated, complex, distributed environment of interconnected services. A framework of three interconnected levels is applied to tackle this issue relying on coordination and organisational techniques, as well as on Web-services and new methodologies to design, deploy and maintain a distributed system. This paper presents results based on a real use case: interactive community displays with touristic information and services, dynamically personalised according to user context and preferences.

[1]  Mehdi Dastani,et al.  Practical extensions in agent programming languages , 2007, AAMAS '07.

[2]  Juan Carlos Nieves,et al.  Dynamic Orchestration of Distributed Services on Interactive Community Displays: The ALIVE Approach , 2009, PAAMS.

[3]  Victor R. Lesser,et al.  Evolution of the GPGP/TÆMS Domain-Independent Coordination Framework , 2002, AAMAS '02.

[4]  Marcin Paprzycki,et al.  Designing Agent Based Travel Support System , 2005, The 4th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (ISPDC'05).

[5]  Huib Aldewereld,et al.  Developing Agent-based Organizational Models for Crisis Management , 2009 .

[6]  Miquel Sànchez-Marrè,et al.  Semi-automatic learning with quantitative and qualitative features , 2002 .

[7]  Michael Luck,et al.  Agent technology, Computing as Interaction: A Roadmap for Agent Based Computing , 2005 .

[8]  Mattijs Ghijsen,et al.  Towards a Framework for Agent Coordination and Reorganization, AgentCoRe , 2007, COIN.

[9]  Virginia Dignum,et al.  OperettA: a prototype tool for the design, analysis and development of multi-agent organizations , 2008, AAMAS.

[10]  Victor R. Lesser.  Evolution of the GPGP/TÆMS domain-independent coordination framework , 2002, AAMAS.

[11]  Laurent Vercouter,et al.  A Multi-Agent System for Dynamic Service Composition in Ambient Intelligence Environments , 2005 .

[12]  Samson W. Tu,et al.  Protégé-2000: An Open-Source Ontology-Development and Knowledge-Acquisition Environment: AMIA 2003 Open Source Expo , 2003, AMIA.

[13]  Frances M. T. Brazier,et al.  Scalable Middleware Environment for Agent-Based Internet Applications , 2004, PARA.

[14]  Julian Padget,et al.  Combining Organisational and Coordination Theory with Model Driven Approaches to Develop Dynamic, Flexible, Distributed Business Systems , 2009, DigiBiz.

[15]  Michael Luck,et al.  Agent technology, Computing as Interaction , 2005 .

[16]  Luigi Ceccaroni,et al.  A graphical environment for ontology development , 2003, AAMAS '03.

[17]  R. Malaka,et al.  DEEP MAP: Challenging IT Research In The Framework Of A Tourist Information System , 2000 .

[18]  James A. Hendler,et al.  Filtering and selecting semantic Web services with interactive composition techniques , 2004, IEEE Intelligent Systems.

[19]  M. V. Dignum,et al.  A Model for Organizational Interaction: based on Agents, founded in Logic , 2000 .

[20]  Luigi Ceccaroni,et al.  PaTac: Urban, Ubiquitous, Personalized Services for Citizens and Tourists , 2009, 2009 Third International Conference on Digital Society.

[21]  Michael Wooldridge,et al.  Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems , 2014 .

[22]  Jerry R. Hobbs,et al.  DAML-S: Semantic Markup for Web Services , 2001, SWWS.

[23]  Frank Dignum,et al.  Deliberative Normative Agents: Principles and Architecture , 1999, ATAL.