Facilitating mas complete life cycle through the protégé-prometheus approach

The approach of this paper aims to support the complete multi-agent systems life cycle, integrated by two existing and widely accepted tools, Protégé Ontology Editor and Knowledge-Base Framework, and Prometheus Development Kit. A general sequence of steps facilitating application creation is proposed in this paper. We propose that it seems reasonable to integrate all traditional software development stages into one single methodology. This view provides a general approach for MAS creation, starting with problem definition and resulting in program coding, deployment and maintenance. The proposal is successfully being applied to situation assessment issues, which has concluded in an agent-based decision-support system for environmental impact evaluation

Agent-based modeling of a mobile robot to detect and follow humans.

This paper introduces a multi-agent system (MAS) approach using the detailed process provided by Prometheus methodology for the design of a moving robot application for the detection and following of humans. Our conjecture is that complex autonomous robotic systems have to be fully modeled in their initial design stages by means of agent-based technology. The application has been completely modeled with the Prometheus Design Tool (PDT), which offers full support to Prometheus methodology

Evaluation of environmental impact upon human health with decimas framework

The article is dedicated to the problem of decision making in complex systems. Application of a novel interdisciplinary approach, which widely use intelligent agents is offered. The principal ideas of the novel approach are embodied into the DeciMaS framework, that offers a logical set of stages oriented to creation of decision support systems for complex problem management. The components of the DeciMaS framework and the way in which they are organized are introduced. Design and implementation of the system are discussed. The article demonstrates how the initial information is transformed into knowledge. Impact assessment upon human health evaluation is the case study, which is resolved by DeciMas framework. It includes creation of the meta-ontology. In addition, a multi-agent architecture for a decision support system is introduced. The sequence of the steps for the DeciMaS framework design with Prometheus Development Kit and its implementation with JACK Development Environment are presented as well. Finally, data and experiment results of data modeling, simulation, impact assessment, and decision generation are discussed