Engineering regulated open multiagent systems

In this thesis, w e focus on the d e velopment o f normati v e open multiagent systems. The y are systems in which heterogeneous and autonomous agents may need to coexist in a complex social and legal framework that can evolve to address the different and often conflicting objecti ves of the man y stak eholders inv olved. This thesis presents ROMAS, a set o f methods and tools for analyzing and designing systems o f this kind. R OMAS inte grates the analysis, design and v erification o f these systems by means o f a metamodel, a methodology that includes specific de v elopment guidelines and a model-dri ven CASE tool.The author wish to thank R. Bejar and F. Manya for supervising this PhD thesis. Supported by MINECO projects TIN2009-14704-C03-01 and TIN2010-20967-C04-01/03.Garcia Marques, ME. (2014). Engineering regulated open multiagent systems. AI Communications. 27:417-419. https://doi.org/10.3233/AIC-1406104174192

Evaluación de métodos y técnicas para el desarrollo de sistemas multiagente

Actualmente existe un gran número de métodos y entornos para desarrollar sistemas multiagente. Por ello, es difícil seleccionar la herramienta más adecuada. Este trabajo presenta un entorno de evaluación para analizar y comparar métodos y técnicas para desarrollar este tipo de sistemas.Garcia Marques, ME. (2008). Evaluación de métodos y técnicas para el desarrollo de sistemas multiagente. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/12202Archivo delegad

An engineering framework for Service-Oriented Intelligent Manufacturing Systems

Nowadays fully integrated enterprises are being replaced by business networks in which each participant provides others with specialized services. As a result, the Service Oriented Manufacturing Systems emerges. These systems are complex and hard to engineer. The main source of complexity is the number of different technologies, standards, functions, protocols, and execution environments that must be integrated in order to realize them. This paper proposes a framework and associated engineering approach for assisting the system developers of Service Oriented Manufacturing Systems. The approach combines multi-agent system with Service Oriented Architectures for the development of intelligentautomation control and execution of manufacturing systems.Giret Boggino, AS.; Garcia Marques, ME.; Botti Navarro, VJ. (2016). An engineering framework for Service-Oriented Intelligent Manufacturing Systems. Computers in Industry. 81:116-127. doi:10.1016/j.compind.2016.02.002S1161278

Análisis y diseño de Sistemas Multiagente Normativos Abiertos

[EN] This article summarizes the main contributions of the thesis titled "Engineering Regulated Open Multiagent Systems". This thesis is focused on the analysis and design of normative open systems using multiagent technology. Specifically this thesis offers: (1) a metamodel that allows especifying all the features of systems of this kind; (2) a methodology that covers the analysis through a detailed development process and specific guidelines that include the identification and formalization of the normative context of the system; (3) a CASE tool that integrates the design of the system with the formal verification of its normative context.[ES] Este artículo resume las contribuciones principales de la tesis con el título "Engineering Regulated Open Multiagent Systems". Esta tesis se centra en el análisis y diseño de sistemas normativos abiertos mediante tecnología multiagente. Específicamente esta tesis ofrece: (1) un metamodelo que permite especificar todas las características de estos sistemas; (2) una metodología que cubre el análisis y diseño mediante la especificación detallada del proceso de desarrollo y guías específicas que incluyen la identificación y formalización del entorno normativo del sistema; (3) una herramienta CASE que integra el diseño del sistema con la verificación formal de su entorno normativo.This work is partially supported by the TIN2008-04446, TIN2009-13839-C03-01, PROMETEO 2008/051 projects, CONSOLIDER INGENIO 2010 under grant CSD2007-00022.Garcia Marques, ME.; Giret Boggino, AS. (2014). Análisis y diseño de Sistemas Multiagente Normativos Abiertos. Inteligencia Artificial. Revista Iberoamericana de Inteligencia Artificial. 17(54):17-20. https://doi.org/10.4114/intartif.vol17iss54pp17-20S1720175

Developing Intelligent Virtual Environments using MAM5 Meta-Model

“The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07551-8_43An IVE (Intelligent Virtual Environment) is a virtual environment simulating a physical (or real) world, inhabited by autonomous intelligent entities[2]. Today, this kind of applications are between the most demanded ones, not only as being the key for multi-user games such as World Of Warcraft (with more than 7 million of users in 2013) but also for inmersive social networks such as Second Life (with 36 million accounts created in its 10 years of history). It is in the development of these huge IVEs where the need of a quick and easy-to-use modelling toolkit arises.This work is partíally supported by the TIN2012-36586-C03-01, PROMETEOII/2013/019 and the FPI grant AP2013-01276 awarded to Jaime-Andres Rincon.Rincón Arango, JA.; Carrascosa Casamayor, C.; Garcia Marques, ME. (2014). Developing Intelligent Virtual Environments using MAM5 Meta-Model. En Advances in Practical Applications of Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Systems. The PAAMS Collection. Springer. 379-382. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-07551-8_43S37938

The JaCalIVE framework for MAS in IVE: A case study in evolving modular robotics

[EN] This paper presents a framework specially designed for the execution and adaptation of Intelligent Virtual Environments. This framework, called JaCalIVE, facilitates the development of this kind of environments managing in an efficient and realistic way the evolution of parameters for the adaptation of the physical world. The framework includes a design method and a physical simulator which is in charge of giving the Intelligent Virtual Environment the look of the real or physical world, allowing to simulate physical phenomena such as gravity or collision detection. The paper also includes a case study which illustrates the use of the proposed framework as an evolutive algorithm which allows the automatic adaptation of modular robots. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.This work is partially supported by the TIN2011-27652-C03-01 and the FPI grant AP2013-01276 awarded to Jaime-Andres Rincon.Rincón Arango, JA.; Garcia Marques, ME.; Julian Inglada, VJ.; Carrascosa Casamayor, C. (2018). The JaCalIVE framework for MAS in IVE: A case study in evolving modular robotics. Neurocomputing. 275:608-617. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2016.08.160S60861727

Developing Adaptive Agents Situated in Intelligent Virtual Environments

The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07617-1_9This paper presents a framework specially designed for the execution and adaptation of Intelligent Virtual Environments. This framework, called JACALIVE, facilitates the development of this kind of environments managing in an efficient and realistic way the evolution of parameters for the adaptation of the physical world. The framework includes a design method and a physical simulator which is in charge of giving the Intelligent Virtual Environment the look of the real or physical world, allowing to simulate physical phenomena such as gravity or collision detection. The paper also includes a case study which illustrates the use of the proposed framework.This work is partially supported by the TIN2009-13839-C03-01, TIN2011-27652-003-01, CSD2007-00022, COST Action 100801, FP7-294931 and the FPI grant AP2013-01276 awarded to Jaime-Andres Rincon.Rincón Arango, JA.; Garcia Marques, ME.; Julian Inglada, VJ.; Carrascosa Casamayor, C. (2014). Developing Adaptive Agents Situated in Intelligent Virtual Environments. En Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems. Springer. 98-109. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07617-1_9S9810

Magentix 2 User's Manual

USER’S MANUAL. Version 2.1.0. January 2015Magentix2 is an agent platform for open Multiagent Systems. Its main objective is to bring agent technology to real domains: business, industry, logistics, e-commerce, health-care, etc. Magentix2 platform is proposed as a continuation of the first Magentix platform. The final goal is to extend the functionalities of Magentix, providing new services and tools to allow the secure and optimized management of open Multiagent Systems. Nowadays, Magentix2 provides support at three levels: - Organization level, technologies and techniques related to agent societies. - Interaction level, technologies and techniques related to communications between agents. - Agent level, technologies and techniques related to individual agents (such as reasoningand learning). Thus, Magentix2 platform uses technologies with the necessary capacity to cope with the dynamism of the system topology and with flexible interactions, which are both natural consequences of the distributed and autonomous nature of its components. In this sense, the platform has been extended in order to support flexible interaction protocols and conversations, indirect communication and interactions among agent organizations. Moreover, other important aspects cover by the Magentix2 project are the security issues.Botti Navarro, VJ.; Argente Villaplana, E.; Alemany Bordera, J.; Bellver Faus, J.; Búrdalo Rapa, LA.; Carrascosa Casamayor, C.; Criado Pacheco, N.... (2015). Magentix 2 User's Manual. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/4845