Jorge Agüero

Does Android Dream with Intelligent Agents

In this paper, a new agent model “specially” designed for the recent Android Google SDK is presented, where the Android mobile phone can be considered agent software. This agent model has an approach more practical than theoretical because it uses abstractions which allow to implement it on various systems. The appearance of Android as an open system based on Linux has created new expectations to implement agents. Now, agents may run in different hardware platforms, one approach useful in Ubiquitous Computing to achieve intelligent agent embedded in the environment, which can be considered the vision of the intelligent ambient. Finally, the proposed model abstractions that were used to design the Android agent has been employed to implement a simple example which shows the applicability of the proposal.

Agent Design Using Model Driven Development

Object-oriented software development methodologies have adopted a model-driven approach to analysis and design phases. Currently, a similar approach is being adopted for Multi-Agent Systems to improve the development process and the quality of the agent-based software. Model-Driven Development is a technique that allows to obtain executable code by means of transformations from models and meta-models. This work presents a transformation process that allows to generate automatically the code of an agent over his execution platform. That is, an agent is developed under the MDD approach in an easy and transparent way for the user. The code obtained from the transformations is executed over Andromeda and JADE-Leap embedded agent platforms.

TOWARDS THE DEVELOPMENT OF AGENT-BASED ORGANIZATIONS THROUGH MDD

Virtual Organizations are a mechanism where agents can demonstrate their social skills since they can work in a cooperative and collaborative way. Nonetheless, the development of organizations usin...

MDD-Approach for developing Pervasive Systems based on Service-Oriented Multi- Agent Systems

The development of Ubiquitous or Pervasive Systems can be considered a complex task, with multiple actors, devices and different hardware environments; where it is difficult to find a compact view of all the components. This work proposes to use a MDD (Model-Driven Development) approach to facilitate the development process of Agent-Based Pervasive Systems, providing the user with a set of abstractions that ease the implementation of Pervasive Systems and the deployment of a platform for their execution. The proposal allows designing pervasive applications using high-level abstractions, avoiding the low-level implementation details and, after that, the Pervasive System deployment (with embedded agents and devices) is generated by using automatic transformations. In this way, a non-expert programmer will be able to develop Agent-Based Pervasive Systems, reducing the gap between the design and the implementation phases.

MDD for Virtual Organization Design

This paper presents an approach to design a Virtual Organization using MDD (Model Driven Development), in a fast and simple way. This approach employs a meta-model of Virtual Organization which has concepts and components at a suitable level of abstraction so that it can be implemented on different systems. The user will design the system for different platforms by means of unified agent models (UML-Like). The development process is presented as a set of steps which cover from the model design to the code generation.

Developing Pervasive Systems as Service-Oriented Multi-Agent Systems

The development of Pervasive Systems is an emerging research topic due to the high heterogeneity of involved technologies and the changing nature of the existing platforms/devices, which make it hard to develop this kind of systems. This work presents a Model Driven Development approach to develop agent-based software for Pervasive Environment in order to design and implement application prototypes in an easy and productive way. Our approach provides a method for the specification of Pervasive Systems, which allows to face the development of such systems from a higher abstraction level. The deployment over different execution platforms is achieved by means of automatic transformations among models that described entities and the environment (UML-like). The result is a simplified and homogeneous deployment process for Agent-Based Pervasive Systems.

Model-Driven Development for Ubiquitous MAS

This paper presents an approach to design and deploy Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) using MDD (Model-Driven Development), in a fast and simple way. This approach is specifically addressed to systems including agents that must be executed on mobile or embedded devices. The user will design the system for different platforms by means of unified agent models (using UML-Like models). There will exist different automatic transformations to obtain the specific code for different target platforms from these unified models. On this way, the deployment process of ubiquitous applications (with mobile/embedded agent) is simplified.

MDD-based agent-oriented software engineering for ubiquitous deployment

This work presents a Model Driven Development (MDD) approach to agent-oriented software engineering in order to design and deploy application prototypes in a fast and simple way. This approach is specifically addressed to systems including agents that must be executed on mobile or embedded devices. The user will design the system for different platforms by means of unified agent models (UML-like). There will exist different automatic transformations to obtain the specific code for different target platforms from these unified models. On this way, the deployment process of mobile/embedded agent-based applications is simplified.

An Agent-Based Approach for a Smart Transport System

This paper presents a proposal for a Smart Transport System which is an application that facilitates the interconnection between people (citizens, tourists) and transport providers (Bus, metro, trains, trams), defining the services that everyone can request or offer. The system has been defined as a virtual organization where agents (representing actors of the transport system) can enter or leave into the system consuming or offering services. Due to the fact that modern urban public transport is increasingly an important service used by citizens in current cities, the proposed system will improve the use of resources while also ensuring time flexible mobility solutions for citizens.

Agent reactive capabilities in dynamic environments

Currently, there are many intelligent agent models that provide a number of components or abstractions to solve different types of problems. However, few of them provide abstractions or concepts that allow considering how to deal with complex dynamic environments (an environment that changes continuously in terms of available resources, global behavioral rules, etc.). In this work, we propose two abstractions that provide the developer with a new way of modeling reactive agent capabilities in dynamic environments. The first abstraction focuses on how to process the environmental stimuli as events; the second abstraction specifies how to launch tasks in response to events, which is an approach that is based on event-condition-action rules. Moreover, we present an example that is based on a call center CBR-based application, and a performance evaluation of the proposal is also provided.