Abstract: La adaptación al espacio europeo de educación superior es un hecho que debe ser asumido por todos y cuyo proceso se está llevando a cabo. Para proceder a esta adaptación será necesaria la adopción de nuevos sistemas pedagógicos apoyados en la utilización de nuevas tecnologÃas informáticas. En este artÃculo se ofrece una propuesta basada en el desarrollo dinámico de un portal temático mediante la integración de agentes conversacionales (chatterbots) con bitácoras (blogs). El portal se construye y evoluciona en la propia ventana del navegador del cliente, con base en las preguntas que se formulan, a las contestaciones diseñadas, a los contenidos proporcionados por búsquedas en la red y a aquella que se añade o se puede extraer de las bitácoras vinculadas.
Abstract: This paper introduces a work in progress for definition of AOSE methodology processes. FIPA Methodology Technical Committee encourages the definition of software engineering process models for Multi-Agent Systems methodologies and recommends the use of Software Process Engineering metamodel (SPEM) defined by the Object Management Group. This paper follows those recommendations for obtaining a systematic method and an editor for describing software engineering process models for Multiagent Systems. The editor has been built by means of the Eclipse Modeling Framework and following the SPEM standard. The editor has been used for defining several Agent Oriented process, the method for defining such processes is also addressed in this paper.
Abstract: One of the key issues in development of Multi-agent System(MAS) is to follow the more suitable development process for a particular problem. This means that development process models must be defined. Definition leads to better process understanding, facilitates process measurement and improvement, and constitutes the basis for automating the process itself. The main goal of this paper is the definition of a process for agent-based development. This definition is based on the Software Process Engineering Metamodel(SPEM) and applied in the definition of the software engineering process of INGENIAS MAS methodology following a SCRUM approach.
Abstract: There is a general agreement in the fact that Agent Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE) needs development process definition for an accurate process management. The main trends in the field identify process and methodology in order to approach the process definition. This paper focusses in the idea that process and methodology must be considered independently. This means that not only the same process can be used for different methodologies but also that the same methodology can be used following different processes. The most suitable process can be selected by developers depending on several factors such as: human resources available, time restrictions, costs, etc. The previous approach is justified introducing a case study, which shows how different development processes can be applied while the team is following the same methodology (in particular, INGENIAS methodology).
Notes: Serie del libros Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Editor Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
ISSN 0302-9743 (Print) 1611-3349 (Online)
Volumen Volume 5518/2009
Libro: Distributed Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics, Soft Computing, and Ambient Assisted Living
DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-02481-8
Copyright 2009
ISBN 978-3-642-02480-1
DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-02481-8_5
Páginas 29-36
Subject Collection Informática
Fecha de SpringerLink sábado, 06 de junio de 2009
Abstract: The last years have been very prolific in the study of methods, methodologies and even development process in the area of Agent Oriented Software Engineering. However, there are two aspects that are not developed sufficiently, the first is the acquisition and establishment of requirements and goals for Multiagent Systems from the descriptions of customers / users. The second is a successful implementation of reverse engineering to implementations undertaken in order to retrieve a detailed design of the application obtained. The concern of this work focuses on the first of these aspects. The proposal applies techniques of natural language processing, throughout the entire lifecycle of multi-system, to obtain a model and improve product required. One noteworthy point of this proposal is that the client is actively involved in the development process in a manner non-attendance. Lastly, the proposal allows maximize obtaining initial models for different projects, minimizing their involvement in this process.
Abstract: As in other kinds of software development, the definition of process models in Multi-agent System (MAS) domain has many advantages. Some of these advantages are the better understanding which facilitates process measurement and improvement, and that the definition constitutes the basis for automating the process itself. The main goal of this paper is to provide a proper mechanism for defining agent-based development process models. For achieving this goal, an open-source editor tool and a technique for defining process models with the mentioned tool are presented. Both the editor tool and the technique provide MAS designers with a suitable mechanism for defining process models and are based on the Software Process Engineering Metamodel (SPEM). Although the main goal is to define process models for agent-based development, the proposed tool and technique can define any software process model, because they are based on a general-purpose software process metamodel. The utility of the tool and the technique is also justified, finally, by qualitative comparison with others.
Notes: Book Series Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publisher Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
ISSN 0302-9743 (Print) 1611-3349 (Online)
Volume Volume 5386/2009
Book Agent-Oriented Software Engineering IX
DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-01338-6
Copyright 2009
ISBN 978-3-642-01337-9
DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-01338-6_5
Pages 60-73
Subject Collection Computer Science
SpringerLink Date Tuesday, March 24, 2009
En CiteSEER: 1.57 (Puesto 91 de 1221 considerados: top 7.45%) y en CORE el ranking del congreso es: B
Abstract: Uno de los retos de los próximos años a nivel de la enseñanza universitaria, es la adaptación al espacio europeo de educación superior. Para llevar a cabo esta adaptación será preciso la adopción de nuevos mecanismos, y la utilización de sistemas pedagógicos apoyados en la utilización de nuevas herramientas de teleaprendizaje. La adopción de este tipo de herramientas no podrá ser costosa en el actual marco de recortes presupuestarios. En este artÃculo ofrecemos una alternativa (el uso de agentes conversacionales o chatterbots) a los servicios de tutorÃa virtual más utilizados en la actualidad (FAQs, salas de conversación, foros, blogs, â¦) y que requieren de una presencia activa del profesor/tutorâ¦
Abstract: The development of applications distributed partly on handheld devices is becoming more and more important. This paper shows the use of mobile agents technology in the development of a distributed system, called SAIPE. It makes easier the reading of user e-mail from different accounts and the searching of documents in Internet with a PDA. SAIPE has been developed following the INGENIAS Agent Oriented Methodology and implemented using JADE-LEAP software framework.
Abstract: The guest editors introduce the monograph and present the papers included in it, that cover some of the most significant aspects of the Software Agents field.
Abstract: The rewriting logic CRWL has been proposed as a semantic framework for higher-order functional logic programming, using applicative rewriting systems as programs and lazy narrowing as the goal solving procedure. We present an extension of CRWL with a polymorphic type system, and we investigate the consequences of type discipline both at the semantic level and at the operational level. Semantically, models must be extended to incorporate a type universe. Operationally, lazy narrowing must maintain suitable type information in goals, in order to guarantee well-typed computed answers.
Notes: ISSN 1080-5230
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# [CITATION] Polymorphic types in functional logic programming
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Abstract: The philosophy of software development has changed significantly in recent years. Build quality software more quickly is imperative in todays market, specially when it has to meet the demands of consumers. Not long ago a development team could consist of only one member, while today this is unthinkable, since the number of members in the development teams increases with the complexity of the actual issues. Collaborative programming or pair programming is one of the more relevant areas at present in providing efficient solutions to the working groups management, in such a way that their impact on the software development process is indisputable. The main purpose of this document is to gather the most relevant aspects of the collaborative models in a collaborative framework based on the use of software agents. In practice, the proposed framework is designed in a generic manner, allowing its extension to other environments and different domains.
Abstract: The study of development processes is a key issue regarding quality of final products and reutilization of process portions or fragments. In this work, the process of a particular methodology for Agent Oriented Development is defined using a standard notation, in particular SPEM 2.0 . This case study shows the suitability of process definition as a starting point for reuse of the development process in the Agent Oriented Software Engineering field. Moreover, the results obtained will permit to design a customizable CASE tool that can fit in any development process previously defined.
Abstract: Multi-agent Systems are at the moment an important new paradigm in software development. Several methodologies have been proposed for developing systems within this approach. Besides new agile process have been proposed to be used combined with the meta-models of such methodologies. This paper studies how the use of one of those Agent Oriented methodologies following an agile process such as Scrum produces improvements in the time consumed in the development that could shorten the learning time. This may have as outcome the possibility of using smaller groups in development.
Abstract: This paper introduces a work in progress for definition of processes for AOSE methodologies. FIPA Methodology Technical Committee encourages the definition of software engineering process models for Multi-Agent Systems methodologies and recommends the use of Software Process Engineering metamodel (SPEM) defined by the Object Management Group. This paper follows those recommendations for obtaining a systematic method and an editor for describing software engineering process models for Multiagent Systems. The editor has been built by means of the Eclipse Modeling Framework and follows the SPEM standard. Several Agent Oriented processes have defined using the editor, in addition, the method for defining such processes is also addressed in this paper.
Notes: Book Series Advances in Soft Computing
Publisher Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
ISSN 1615-3871 (Print) 1860-0794 (Online)
Volume Volume 50/2009
Book International Symposium on Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence 2008 (DCAI 2008)
DOI 10.1007/978-3-540-85863-8
Copyright 2009
ISBN 978-3-540-85862-1
DOI 10.1007/978-3-540-85863-8_80
Pages 672-681
Subject Collection Engineering
SpringerLink Date Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Abstract: In this work an original case study corresponding to a new multiagent system implementation is presented. The built system is a distributed videoconferencing software which is integrated in an e-learning environment. The system provides the user with specific functionalities including storage of data and multiple profile management. It has been developed following a well know multiagent methodology: INGENIAS and implemented using the Java Multimedia Framework. The use of the system in a university domain has yield to promising results. Moreover, the software has been designed in an open way resulting in a portable system, which can be used in other domains different form e-learning such as e-Health-care or e-Business.
Notes: Book Series Advances in Soft Computing
Publisher Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
ISSN 1615-3871 (Print) 1860-0794 (Online)
Volume Volume 55/2009
Book 7th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (PAAMS 2009)
DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-00487-2
Copyright 2009
ISBN 978-3-642-00486-5
DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-00487-2_30
Pages 284-292
Subject Collection Engineering
SpringerLink Date Sunday, March 08, 2009
Abstract: There is a general agreement in the fact that Agent Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE) needs development process definition for an accurate process management. The main trends in the field identify process and methodology in order to approach the process definition. This paper focusses in the idea that process and methodology must be considered independently. This means that not only the same process can be used for different methodologies but also that the same methodology can be used following different processes. The most suitable process can be selected by developers depending on several factors such as: human resources available, time restrictions, costs, etc. The previous approach is justified introducing a case study, which shows how different development processes can be applied while the team is following the same methodology (in particular, INGENIAS methodology).
Abstract: Research in Agent Oriented Software Engineering involves the integration of different disciplines, from software engineering to artificial intelligence. To demonstrate the breadth of the field, this chapter discusses a number of the research issues involved. The issues range from the definition of a framework for evaluation of agent-oriented methodologies to the integration of other software engineering practices such as the use of software components or the Model Driven Engineering approach. The works discussed involve various activities of the software life cycle: test, verification and validation of multi-agent systems, the application of multi-agent systems for software maintenance and practical multi-agent systems proposals for specific domains, such as the development of multi-agent systems applying the System Product Lines philosophy and the definition of a method based on agent-oriented methodologies for the development of Holonic Manufacturing Systems.
Notes: ISBN 978-3-7643-8542-2 (Print) 978-3-7643-8543-9 (Online)
SpringerLink Date Saturday, December 22, 2007
Abstract: This paper is a continuation of [10]. It presents soundness and completeness results for a higher-order (HO) functional logic language which has a domain-based declarative semantics and uses conditional narrowing (for applicative, constructor based rewriting systems) as operational semantics. HO-unification is avoided by for bidding lambda-abstractions in the language. However, narrowing must include a mechanism for binding HO logic variables to simple functional patterns built by partial application. A deeper investigation of lazy strategiees and infinite narrowing derivations is foreseen.
Research supported by the national project TIC 89/0104 and the ESPRIT BR Working Group N. 6028 CCL
Notes: ISSN: 0302-9743 (Print) 1611-3349 (Online)
ISBN 978-3-540-56992-3
SpringerLink Date Friday, January 20, 2006
Abstract: Denotational semantics is the usual mathematical semantics for functional programming languages. It is higher order (H.O.) in the sense that the semantic domain D includes [D rarr D] as a subdomain. On the other hand, the usual declarative semantics for logic programs is first order (F.O.) and given by the least Herbrand model. In this paper, we take a restricted kind of H.O. conditional rewriting systems as computational paradigm for functional programming. For these systems, we define both H.O. denotational and F.O. declarative semantics as two particular instances of algebraic semantics over continuous applicative algebras. For the declarative semantics, we prove soundness and completeness of rewriting, as well as an initiality result. We show that both soundness and completeness fail w.r.t. the denotational semantics and we present a natural restriction of rewriting that avoids unsoundness. We conjecture that this restricted rewriting is complete for computing denotation ally valid F.O. results.
Research supported by the PRONTIC project TIC 89/0104.
Notes: ISSN: 0302-9743 (Print) 1611-3349 (Online)
ISBN 978-3-540-55789-0
SpringerLink Date Monday, April 10, 2006
Abstract: We present three heuristics including the usage of domain specific knowledge to improve a general purpose algorithm for the 3D approximate point set match problem and its application to the task of
finding 3D motifs (like surface patterns or binding sites) in proteins. The domain specific knowledge and further heuristics are used, under certain conditions, to reduce the run time for the search and to adapt the number of reported matches to the expectations of the user. Compared to the general purpose algorithm, the new version is twice as fast, and can be further improved especially for small tolerances in the matches by means of analyzing the distance distributions of the atoms.
Abstract: One of the key issues in development of Multi-agent System(MAS) is to follow the more suitable development process for a particular problem. This means that development process models must be defined. Definition leads to better process understanding, facilitates process measurement and improvement, and constitutes the basis for automating the process itself. The main goal of this paper is the definition of a process for agent-based development. This definition is based on the Software Process Engineering Metamodel(SPEM) and applied in the definition of the software engineering process of INGENIAS MAS methodology following a SCRUM approach.
Abstract: It is described that has been a noticeable increase in the use of agent oriented methodologies. Related to the process of requirements analysis and acquisition, various works have been published in recent years related to some methodologies. Despite this, there are not many proposals which seek to apply these results through its implementation with multiagente systems. This is the main aim of this study: the develop of a system that allows to get an initial architectural model based on INGENIAS from a detailed description in natural language of the system required by means of the processing of almost automatic form of the description of the system to resolving.
Abstract: This paper introduces a work in progress for definition of AOSE methodology processes. FIPA Methodology Technical Committee encourages the definition of software engineering process models for Multi-Agent Systems methodologies and recommends the use of Software Process Engineering metamodel (SPEM) defined by the Object Management Group. This paper follows those recommendations for obtaining a systematic method and an editor for describing software engineering process models for Multiagent Systems. The editor has been built by means of the Eclipse Modeling Framework and following the SPEM standard. The editor has been used for defining several Agent Oriented process, the method for defining such processes is also addressed in this paper.
Abstract: Integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques within Learning Management Systems (LMS) represent a little explored field of research. We use this paper to show how these techniques can help students as well as tutors across the learning process within an open source e-learning platform. Especially, we present T-BOT and Q-BOT, a couple of chatter bots capable of tutoring and evaluating students using open platforms as Moodle or Claroline. These bots are developed in Program E, a PHP-base interpreter, and can interoperate with the students through natural language thanks to an AIML brain.
Abstract: As in other kinds of software development, the definition of process models in Multi-agent System(MAS) domain has many advantages. Some of these advantages are the better understanding which facilitates process measurement and improvement, and the definition of the basis for automating the process itself. The main goal of this paper is to provide a proper mechanism for defining agent-based development process models. For achieving this goal, an open-source editor tool and a technique for defining process models with the mentioned tool are presented. Both the editor tool and the technique provide the MAS designer with a suitable mechanism for defining process models and are based on the Software Process Engineering Metamodel(SPEM). Although the main goal is to define process models for agent-based development, the proposed tool and technique can define any software process model, because they are based on a general-purpose software process metamodel. The utility of the tool and the technique is justified, finally, by qualitative comparison with others.
Abstract: The last years have been very prolific in the study of methods, methodologies and even development process in the area of Agent Oriented Software Engineering. However, there are two aspects that are not developed sufficiently, the first is the acquisition and establishment of requirements and goals for Multiagent Systems from the descriptions of customers / users. The second is a successful implementation of reverse engineering to implementations undertaken in order to retrieve a detailed design of the application obtained. The concern of this work focuses on the first of these aspects. The proposal applies techniques of natural language processing, throughout the entire lifecycle of multi-system, to obtain a model and improve product required. One noteworthy point of this proposal is that the client is actively involved in the development process in a manner non-attendance. Lastly, the proposal allows maximize obtaining initial models for different projects, minimizing their involvement in this process.
