Enhancing Smart-Home Environments using Magentix2

[EN] Multi-agent system paradigm has been envisioned as an appropriate solution for challenges in the area of smart-environments. Specifically, MAS add new capabilities such as adaption, reorganization, learning, coordination, etc. These features allow to deal with open issues in the context of smart-homes such as multi-occupancy, activity tracking or profiling activities and behaviors from multiple residents. In this paper, we present Magentix2 as a suitable MAS platform for the development of dynamic smart environments. Specifically, the use of Magentix2 (http://gti-ia.upv.es/sma/tools/magentix2/index.php) facilitates the management of the multiple occupancy in smart living spaces. Normative virtual organizations provide the possibility of defining a set of norms and organizational roles that facilitate the regulation and control of the actions that can be carried out by internal and external agents depending on their profile. Moreover, Magentix2 provides a tracing service to keep track of activities carried out in the system. We illustrate the applicability and benefits of Magentix2 in a set of scenarios in the context of smart-homes.This work is supported by the Spanish government grants PROMETEOII/2013/019,TIN2014-55206-R, TIN2015-65515-C4-1-R, H2020-ICT-2015-688095.Valero Cubas, S.; Del Val Noguera, E.; Alemany-Bordera, J.; Botti, V. (2017). Enhancing Smart-Home Environments using Magentix2. Journal of Applied Logic. 24:32-44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jal.2016.11.022S32442

Using Magentix2 in Smart-Home Environments

[EN] In this paper, we present the application of a multi-agent platform Magentix2 for the development of MAS in smart-homes. Specificallly, the use of Magentix2 (http://gti-ia.upv.es/sma/tools/magentix2/index.php) platform facilitates the management of the multiple occupancy in smart living spaces. Virtual organizations provide the possibility of defining a set of norms and roles that facilitate the regulation and control of the actions that can be carried out by the internal and external agents depending on their profile. We illustrate the applicability of our proposal with a set of scenarios. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015.This work is supported by the Spanish government grants CONSOLIDER INGENIO 2010 CSD2007-00022, MINECO/FEDER TIN2012-36586-C03-01, TIN2011-27652-C03-01, and SP2014800.Valero Cubas, S.; Del Val Noguera, E.; Alemany Bordera, J.; Botti, V. (2015). Using Magentix2 in Smart-Home Environments. En 10th International Conference on Soft Computing Models in Industrial and Environmental Applications. Springer Verlag. 27-37. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19719-7_3S2737Bajo J, Fraile JA, Pérez-Lancho B, Corchado JM (2010) The thomas architecture in home care scenarios: a case study. Expert Syst Appl 37(5):3986–3999Cetina C, Giner P, Fons J, Pelechano V (2009) Autonomic computing through reuse of variability models at runtime: The case of smart homes. Computer 42(10):37–43Cook DJ (2009) Multi-agent smart environments. J Ambient Intell Smart Environ 1(1):51–55Crandall AS, Cook DJ (2010) Using a hidden markov model for resident identification. In: 6th international conference on intelligent environments, pp 74–79. IEEECriado N, Argente E, Botti V (2013) THOMAS: an agent platform for supporting normative multi-agent systems. J Logic Comput 23(2):309–333Davidoff S, Lee MK, Zimmerman J, Dey A (2006) Socially-aware requirements for a smart home. In: Proceedings of the international symposium on intelligent, environments, pp 41–44Grupo de Tecnología Informática e Inteligencia Artificial (GTI-IA) (2015). http://www.gti-ia.upv.es/sma/tools/magentix2/archivos/Magentix2UserManualv2.1.0.pdf . Magentix2 User’s Manual v2.0Loseto G, Scioscia F, Ruta M, di Sciascio E (2012) Semantic-based smart homes: a multi-agent approach. In: 13th Workshop on objects and agents (WOA 2012), vol 892, pp 49–55Rodriguez S, Julián V, Bajo J, Carrascosa C, Botti V, Corchado JM (2011) Agent-based virtual organization architecture. Eng Appl Artif Intell 24(5):895–910Rodríguez S, Paz JFD, Villarrubia G, Zato C, Bajo J, Corchado JM (2015) Multi-agent information fusion system to manage data from a WSN in a residential home. Inf Fusion 23:43–57Such JM, Garca-Fornes A, Espinosa A, Bellver J (2012) Magentix2: a Privacy-enhancing Agent Platform. Eng Appl Artif IntellSun Q, Yu W, Kochurov N, Hao Q, Hu F (2013) A multi-agent-based intelligent sensor and actuator network design for smart house and home automation. J Sens Actuator Netw 2(3):557–588Val E, Criado N, Rebollo M, Argente E, Julian V (2009) Service-oriented framework for virtual organizations. 1:108–114Wu C-L, Liao C-F, Fu L-C (2007) Service-oriented smart-home architecture based on osgi and mobile-agent technology. IEEE Trans Syst Man Cybern Part C Appl Rev 37(2):193–205Yin J, Yang Q, Shen D, Li Z-N (2008) Activity recognition via user-trace segmentation. ACM Trans Sens Netw (TOSN) 4(4):1

A genetic approach for long term virtual organization distribution

Electronic versíon of an article published as International Journal on Artificial Intelligent Tools, Volume 20, issue 2, 2011. 10.1142/S0218213011000152. © World Scientific Publishing Company[EN] An agent-based Virtual Organization is a complex entity where dynamic collections of agents agree to share resources in order to accomplish a global goal or offer a complex service. An important problem for the performance of the Virtual Organization is the distribution of the agents across the computational resources. The final distribution should provide a good load balancing for the organization. In this article, a genetic algorithm is applied to calculate a proper distribution across hosts in an agent-based Virtual Organization. Additionally, an abstract multi-agent system architecture which provides infrastructure for Virtual Organization distribution is introduced. The developed genetic solution employs an elitist crossover operator where one of the children inherits the most promising genetic material from the parents with higher probability. In order to validate the genetic proposal, the designed genetic algorithm has been successfully compared to several heuristics in different scenarios. © 2011 World Scientific Publishing Company.This work is supported by TIN2008-04446, TIN2009-13839-C03-01, CSD2007-00022 and FPU grant AP2008-00600 of the Spanish government, and PROMETEO 2008/051 of the Generalitat Valenciana.Sánchez Anguix, V.; Valero Cubas, S.; García Fornes, AM. (2011). A genetic approach for long term virtual organization distribution. International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools. 20(2):271-295. https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218213011000152S27129520

Using Norms To Control Open Multi-Agent Systems

Internet es, tal vez, el avance científico más relevante de nuestros días. Entre otras cosas, Internet ha permitido la evolución de los paradigmas de computación tradicionales hacia el paradigma de computaciónn distribuida, que se caracteriza por utilizar una red abierta de ordenadores. Los sistemas multiagente (SMA) son una tecnolog a adecuada para abordar los retos motivados por estos sistemas abiertos distribuidos. Los SMA son aplicaciones formadas por agentes heterog eneos y aut onomos que pueden haber sido dise~nados de forma independiente de acuerdo con objetivos y motivaciones diferentes. Por lo tanto, no es posible realizar ninguna hip otesis a priori sobre el comportamiento de los agentes. Por este motivo, los SMA necesitan de mecanismos de coordinaci on y cooperaci on, como las normas, para garantizar el orden social y evitar la aparici on de conictos. El t ermino norma cubre dos dimensiones diferentes: i) las normas como un instrumento que gu a a los ciudadanos a la hora de realizar acciones y actividades, por lo que las normas de nen los procedimientos y/o los protocolos que se deben seguir en una situaci on concreta, y ii) las normas como ordenes o prohibiciones respaldadas por un sistema de sanciones, por lo que las normas son medios para prevenir o castigar ciertas acciones. En el area de los SMA, las normas se vienen utilizando como una especi caci on formal de lo que est a permitido, obligado y prohibido dentro de una sociedad. De este modo, las normas permiten regular la vida de los agentes software y las interacciones entre ellos. La motivaci on principal de esta tesis es permitir a los dise~nadores de los SMA utilizar normas como un mecanismo para controlar y coordinar SMA abiertos. Nuestro objetivo es elaborar mecanismos normativos a dos niveles: a nivel de agente y a nivel de infraestructura. Por lo tanto, en esta tesis se aborda primero el problema de la de nici on de agentes normativos aut onomos que sean capaces de deliberar acercaCriado Pacheco, N. (2012). Using Norms To Control Open Multi-Agent Systems [Tesis doctoral no publicada]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/17800Palanci

Case-based argumentation infrastructure for agent societies

In this work, we propose an infrastructure to develop and execute argumentative agents in an open multi-agent system. This infrastructure offers the necessary components to develop agents with argumentation capabilities, including the communication skills and the argumentation protocol, and it offers support for agent societies and their agents' social context. The main advantage of having this infrastructure is that it is possible to create agents with argumentation capabilities to resolve a specified problem. In the argumentation dialogue the agents try to reach an agreement about the best solution to apply for each proposed problem. The proposed infrastructure has been validated with a real example and it has been evaluated obtaining, with argumentation strategies, better performance than other reasoning approaches that do not include argumentation.Jordán Prunera, JM. (2011). Case-based argumentation infrastructure for agent societies. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/15362Archivo delegad

Sistemas Multiagente Normativos

Esta tesis propone el desarrollo de nuevas tecnologias basada en agentes/sistemas multiagente necesarias para el desarrollo de organizaciones virtuales en entornos abiertos. En concreto, este trabajo analiza cómo incorporar conceptos normas dentro de la tecnología de agentes como una infraestructura para los Sistemas Abiertos.Criado Pacheco, N. (2009). Sistemas Multiagente Normativos. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/14394Archivo delegad

Magentix2: Una nueva plataforma para sistemas multiagente abiertos

En este trabajo, se presenta la plataforma Magentix2. Esta plataforma pretende brindar soporte al desarrollo de SMA abiertos en cada uno de sus niveles: agente, interacción y organizacional. Los desarrolladores de SMA pueden modelar interacciones entre los agentes, organizar los agentes en diferentes modelos y programar agentes autónomos.López Fogués, R. (2010). Magentix2: Una nueva plataforma para sistemas multiagente abiertos. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/13964Archivo delegad

Utility-Based Mechanism for Structural Self-Organization in Service-Oriented MAS

Structural relations established among agents influence the performance of decentralized service discovery process in multiagent systems. Moreover, distributed systems should be able to adapt their structural relations to changes in environmental conditions. In this article, we present a service-oriented multiagent systems, where agents initially self-organize their structural relations based on the similarity of their services. During the service discovery process, agents integrate a mechanism that facilitates the self-organization of their structural relations to adapt the structure of the system to the service demand. This mechanism facilitates the task of decentralized service discovery and improves its performance. Each agent has local knowledge about its direct neighbors and the queries received during discovery processes. With this information, an agent is able to analyze its structural relations and decide when it is more appropriate to modify its direct neighbors and select the most suitable acquaintances to replace them. The experimental evaluation shows how this self-organization mechanism improves the overall performance of the service discovery process in the system when the service demand changesThis work is partially supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation through grants CSD2007-0022 (CONSOLIDER-INGENIO 2010), TIN2012-36586-C03-01, TIN2012-36586-C03-01, TIN2012-36586-C03-02, PROMETEOII/2013/019, and FPU grant AP-2008-00601 awarded to E. Del Val.Del Val Noguera, E.; Rebollo Pedruelo, M.; Vasirani, M.; Fernández, A. (2014). Utility-Based Mechanism for Structural Self-Organization in Service-Oriented MAS. ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems. 9(3):1-24. https://doi.org/10.1145/2651423S12493Sherief Abdallah and Victor Lesser. 2007. 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An abstract architecture for virtual organizations: The THOMAS approach

Today, the need for architectures and computational models for large-scale open multi-agent systems is considered to be a key issue for the success of agent technology in real-world scenarios. This paper analyzes the significant unsolved problems that must be taken into account in order to develop real, open multi-agent systems. It identifies requirements and related open issues, discusses how some of these requirements have been tackled by current technologies, and explains how the THOMAS architecture is able to give support to these open issues. This paper also describes the THOMAS abstract architecture and computational model for large-scale open multi-agent systems based on a service-oriented approach that specifically addresses the design of virtual organizations. 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