Design of an intelligent waterway ambient infrastructure based on Multiagent Systems and Wireless Sensor Networks

Lately Maritime research areas have moved their interests from traditional ship studies and traffic systems to new areas that confer a more general character to them as, for example, environmental monitoring. BOYAS project is proposed including these new perspectives as well as more classical ones. Trying to get this integral character for the waterway ambient and its activities management, the confluence between two recent research areas is studied. The convergence of Multiagent Systems and Wireless Sensor Networks constitutes a good framework and scenario in which this new research activities may be studied and develop.Ministerio de Industria, Turismo y Comercio FIT-340000-2006-2

Reconfigurable Security: Edge Computing-based Framework for IoT

In various scenarios, achieving security between IoT devices is challenging since the devices may have different dedicated communication standards, resource constraints as well as various applications. In this article, we first provide requirements and existing solutions for IoT security. We then introduce a new reconfigurable security framework based on edge computing, which utilizes a near-user edge device, i.e., security agent, to simplify key management and offload the computational costs of security algorithms at IoT devices. This framework is designed to overcome the challenges including high computation costs, low flexibility in key management, and low compatibility in deploying new security algorithms in IoT, especially when adopting advanced cryptographic primitives. We also provide the design principles of the reconfigurable security framework, the exemplary security protocols for anonymous authentication and secure data access control, and the performance analysis in terms of feasibility and usability. The reconfigurable security framework paves a new way to strength IoT security by edge computing.Comment: under submission to possible journal publication

Self-organizing multi-agent system for management and planning surveillance routes

This paper presents the THOMAS architecture, specially designed to model open multi-agent systems, and its application in the development of a multi-agent system for managing and planning surveillance routes for security personnel. THOMAS uses agents with reasoning and planning capabilities. These agents can perform a dynamic self-organization when they detect changes in the environment. THOMAS is appropriate for developing systems in highly dynamic environments similar to the one presented in this study, as demonstrated by the results obtained after having applied the system to a case study.Web of Science3151100108

Self-Organizing Multi-Agent System for Management and Planning Surveillance Routes

This paper presents the THOMAS architecture, specially designed to model open multi-agent systems, and its application in the development of a multi-agent system for managing and planning surveillance routes for security personnel. THOMAS uses agents with reasoning and planning capabilities. These agents can perform a dynamic self-organization when they detect changes in the environment. THOMAS is appropriate for developing systems in highly dynamic environments similar to the one presented in this study, as demonstrated by the results obtained after having applied the system to a case study

Development of BIM-BEM framework to support the design process

The research work in this thesis investigates the technical and process approaches to encourage the use of Building Information Modeling (BIM) for Building Energy Modeling (BEM) (refer to as BIM-BEM) to perform energy simulations during the design process. The research was motivated by the lack of the interoperability and integration of BIM model into the BEM tools and the adoption of BIM-BEM technology into the design process. Thus, there was a need to establish how BIM-BEM can be executed successfully and accurately to support the design process. Therefore, the objectives were to combine appropriate technical and process approaches to develop an effective and holistic framework for BIM-BEM execution during the design process. This thesis was rooted based on Action Research (AR) methodology to address realistic perspective with real-practice issues. The methodology had five main steps including diagnosing, action planning, action tacking, and validating using various case studies. The main gaps in this area were identified using a systematic literature review of technical and process aspects. Accordingly, a general template for BIM-BEM framework was developed considering all the requirements to correctly implement BIM-BEM within an efficient process that can be adopted for different project types. Regarding the proposed template, a generic BIM-BEM framework was developed in an easy to follow process map considering the identified requirements and various tested tools to support the modeling, model integration, and work/data flows during the design process. Finally, an innovative information protocol was developed in order to streamline the BIM-BEM framework to support accurate information sharing in an appropriate Level Of Development (LOD) for energy simulation at each design phase. This thesis brings an original contribution to the practice and knowledge by providing a generic and reliable framework to streamline and systematize the use of BIM-BEM during the design process for high-performance buildings. The technical and process approaches proposed in the framework are operationalized by the advanced information protocol for a successful BIMBIM execution during the design process. Accordingly, using the BIM-BEM framework allows reducing the interoperability errors, saving the time of remodeling and troubleshooting, better data management and maximizing the accuracy of simulation results that in total evoke sustainable design evolution and optimization early by professionals. The professionals can employ the BIM-BEM framework by following and adapting the proposed design activities, integration methods, work/data flow and the information protocol in their design process. For specific project types, the framework can be adjusted and advanced by identifing complementary requirements to each design activity. In addition, it can be upgraded and advanced by including other innovative model integration and process approaches as future work. In future work, the framework will be extended by advanced technical solutions that needs moving current industries toward using programming expertise in their process

SInCom 2015

2nd Baden-Württemberg Center of Applied Research Symposium on Information and Communication Systems, SInCom 2015, 13. November 2015 in Konstan

Cloud Computing and Multiagent Systems, a Promising Relationship.

The technology industry is presently making great strides in the development of the paradigm of Cloud Computing. As a result, the number of both closed and open source platforms has been rapidly increasing. They all have a similar architecture. A cloud computing platform can be considered as an open system because it is dynamic, heterogeneous and unpredictable. Theoretically, this kind of environment is the most suitable for agent technology. Under the frame of this chapter we explain a new agent-based proposed architecture to control a cloud computing platform that satisfies the hypothesis