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Showing 1 to 20 of 58 for “"software agents"”.
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Software agents : an application to the airline MRO industry
… some of the business processes in MRO depots. Agents and automated processes are ideal choices for making sense of ontologies and are key components in the next generation Semantic Web. The focus lies with improving business logic and practices of air carriers' MRO activities using software …
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Software Agents for Dlnet Content Review: Study and Experimentation
… is an effort to test our hypothesis that a software agent based architecture will provide a better response time and will be more maintainable and reusable than the present J2EE based architecture of DLNET (Digital Library Network for Engineering and Technology). We have taken a portion of …
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Collaborative software agents support for the texpros document management system
… representation by integrating Collaborative Software Agents with TEXPROS (abbreviation for TEXt PROcessing System) [Liu and Ng 1996] to create a powerful distributed document management system. Such markup documents with embedded active rules are called Active Documents. For fast retrieval …
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A Nomadicity-driven Negotiation Protocol, Tactics and Strategies for Interacting Software Agents.
… scientific backgrounds. Today's amount of software applications that bring together advanced mobile services and literature of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is quite remarkable and worth investigating. Cooperation, coordination and negotiation are some of AI's focal points wherein many of …
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Agents with faces : a study on the effects of personification of software agents
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1996.
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A Study of Autonomous Agents in Decision Support Systems
Software agents have been heralded as the most important emerging technology of the decade. As software development firms eagerly attempt to integrate these autonomous programs into their products, researchers attempt to define the concept of agency and to develop architectures that will improve …
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Explorations of knowledge management in a defence engineering environment
… to be effective, efficient, and competitive. The software agent approach and information retrieval technique indicates great potential for effectively managing information. This research seeks to answer the questions of whether software agents can provide the Company with solutions to the …
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A new user model to support electronic commerce
… man-machine interaction. Several applications or software agents can use such model-based knowledge to give better and personalized services to end-users. The personalization can be in the form of filtering, presentation, resolving ambiguity or incompleteness, and proactive notification. In …
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The Assessment Agent System: Assessing Comprehensive Understanding Based on Concept Maps
… explores the feasibility of employing software agent technology to support large-scale assessment. The research included the design, development, and evaluation of the Assessment Agent System for assessing comprehensive understanding based on concept maps. The system was designed by …
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Using Heading to Improve Autonomous Agent Movement on Networks
… to diagnosing threats is needed. A mobile software agent system modeled on ants provides one possible solution to this problem. Using this approach, software agents visit nodes (computing devices) in the network and look for evidence of a security threat. Agents operate autonomously, …
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An agent based manufacturing scheduling module for Advanced Planning and Scheduling
A software agents based manufacturing scheduling module for Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) is presented. The problem considered is scheduling of jobs with multiple operations, distinct operation processing times, arrival times, and due dates in a job shop environment. Sequence dependent …
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Performance Evaluation of Data Integrity Mechanisms for Mobile Agents
… popularity of e-commerce applications that use software agents, the protection of mobile agent data has become imperative. To that end, the performance of four methods that protect the data integrity of mobile agents is evaluated. The methods investigated include existing approaches known as the …
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Applications of agent architectures to decision support in distributed simulation and training systems
… results of a new model for applying intelligent agents to complex distributed interactive simulation for command and control. In the framework of tactical command, control communications, computers and intelligence (C_4I), software agents provide a novel approach for efficient decision support …
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A Comparison of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering Frameworks and Methodologies
Agent-oriented software engineering (AOSE) covers issues on developing systems with software agents. There are many techniques, mostly agent-oriented and object-oriented, ready to be chosen as building blocks to create agent-based systems. There have been several AOSE methodologies proposed …
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Al Planning Assistant for Scheduling Daily Activities
<p>Artificial conversational agents are software agents that can interact with humans in the way humans do. Siri Cortana, and Alexa are examples of intelligent agents that can help us with almost all the basic tasks. These agents are smart enough to do the basic tasks, but not as much when it comes …
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Or Best Offer: A Privacy Policy Negotiation Protocol
… policies in machine readable form. Currently, software agents designed to protect users' privacy follow a "take it or leave it" approach when evaluating these privacy policies. This approach is inflexible and gives the server ultimate control over the privacy of web transactions. Privacy policy …
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Ethics for artificial agents
… issues involved in the design of autonomous software agents ("artificial agents"). Chapter 1 of this thesis considers how best to understand the central projects of this new subfield, and reconstructs a prominent theory of how artificial agents ought to be designed. This theory, which I call …
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Ontologijų tobulinimo metodų tyrimas /
… artificial intelligence, the semantic web, software engineering, information integration, search, biomedical informatics, navigation and information architecture as a form of knowledge representation about the world or some part of it and are also used for knowledge sharing. Ontologies are …
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Approaches to multi-agent learning
… Sensor networks, teams of robotic vehicles, and software agents are just a few examples. In order to design these systems, we need methods that allow our agents to autonomously learn and adapt to the changing environments they find themselves in. This thesis explores ideas from game theory, …
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A bacterial algorithm for surface mapping using a Markov modulated Markov chain model of bacterial chemotaxis
… which tracks the motion of a bacteria-like software agent (based on a low-level model of the biochemical network responsible for chemotaxis) on a surface or objective function. Towards that end, a discrete Markov modulated Markov chains model of the chemotaxis pathway is described and used. …
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