Alejandro Sánchez

PANGEA – Platform for Automatic coNstruction of orGanizations of intElligent Agents

This article presents PANGEA, an agent platform to develop open multiagent systems, specifically those including organizational aspects such as virtual agent organizations. The platform allows the integral management of organizations and offers tools to the end user. Additionally, it includes a communication protocol based on the IRC standard, which facilitates implementation and remains robust even with a large number of connections. The introduction of a CommunicationAgent and a Sniffer make it possible to offer web services for the distributed control of interaction.

A Gateway Protocol Based on FIPA-ACL for the New Agent Platform PANGEA

Communication is one of the cornerstones of the intelligent agents paradigm. There are different forms of communication between agents, just as there are many platforms for creating them. However, one of the problems we encountered when using the agent paradigm is the actual communication between platforms. That is, to have a gateway of communication between different types of agents regardless of the platform has been used to create them. To this end, a new way of communication between PANGEA and other multiagent platforms is presented in this paper. In this communication process the FIPA-ACL standards are used.

Platform for building large-scale agent-based systems

This paper presents an agent platform called PANGEA (Platform for Automatic construction of orGanizations of intElligent Agents). This platform allows to developed multiagent systems modeled as Virtual Organizations. The concepts of roles, organizations and norms are fully supported by the platform assuring flexibility and scalability. Moreover, a communication protocol based on IRC gives high performance and reliability to this kind of distributed systems.

Menu Navigation in Mobile Devices Using the Accelerometer

In this article an application for mobile devices is presented. This application uses the accelerometer integrated into the own device to detect certain user movements and use them to navigate through the menus. The application is destined to those users with visual incapacity who need an alternative mechanism for the selection of the different options in the menus.

Personalization of the Workplace through a Proximity Detection System Using User Profiles

This paper presents a prototype for adapting workplaces for disabled people. The effective integration of people with disabilities in the workplace is a huge challenge to society, and it presents an opportunity to make use of new technologies. The project, called AZTECA, aims to develop new tools that contribute to the employment of groups of people with visual, hearing, or motor disabilities in office environments. These different tools for the disabled people have been modelled with intelligent agents that use Web services. These agents are implemented and deployed within the PANGEA platform so PANGEA conforms the skeleton of the system and allows to develop an integral system. The main target of prototype presented in this work is the people detection using ZigBee technology and the personalization of the workplace according to the users disability.

Integration of a Proximity Detection Prototype into a VO Developed with PANGEA

This article presents a proximity detection prototype that uses ZigBee technology developed using the agent’s platform PANGEA (Platform for Automatic coNstruction of orGanizations of intElligent Agents). PANGEA is an agent platform to develop open multiagent systems, specifically those including organizational aspects such as virtual agent organizations. The platform allows the complete management of organizations and offers tools to the end user. Due to the specific characteristics of this prototype, PANGEA is the perfect candidate to develop the prototype that will be included in the future in an integral system primarily oriented to facilitate the integration of people with disabilities into the workplace.

An Integral System Based on Open Organization of Agents for Improving the Labour Inclusion of Disabled People

This paper presents a system composed by a set of tools that facilitate the work of disabled people in their work environment. The PANGEA platform was used to build the base architecture of the system, where each tool is designed as a collection of intelligent agents that offer the services as Web-services. Moreover, all the system is implemented as an Open MAS. In this paper two tools are presented in detail, the proximity detection tool and the translator tool for people with hearing impairments.