Engineering Agent Systems for Decision Support

This paper discusses how agent technology can be applied to the design of advanced Information Systems for Decision Support. In particular, it describes the different steps and models that are necessary to engineer Decision Support Systems based on a multiagent architecture. The approach is illustrated by a case study in the traffic management domain.

Engineering abstracts from the current periodical literature of engineering and applied science, published outside the United Kingdom.

No. 26 and 27 issued in combined form.

The Purdue engineering review

On cover, no. 6-[11̈: Bulletin of Purdue university ... (in no. [10-11̈ (1914-15) the serial numbers of the periodical are replaced on t.-p. by the Bulletin numbers v. 14, no. 7 and v. 15, no. 8, respectively)

Towards a Methodology for Coordination Mechanism Selection in Open Systems

Agent-oriented software engineering (AOSE) is a promising approach to developing applications for dynamic open systems. If well developed, these applications can be opportunistic, taking advantage of services implemented by other developers at appropriate times. However, methodologies are needed to aid the development of systems that are both flexible enough to be opportunistic and tightly defined by the application requirements. In this paper, we investigate how developers can choose the coordination mechanisms of agents so that the agents will best fulfil application requirements in an open system.

Determining the Trustworthiness of New Electronic Contracts

Expressing contractual agreements electronically potentially allows agents to automatically perform functions surrounding contract use: establishment, fulfilment, renegotiation etc. For such automation to be used for real business concerns, there needs to be a high level of trust in the agent-based system. While there has been much research on simulating trust between agents, there are areas where such trust is harder to establish. In particular, contract proposals may come from parties that an agent has had no prior interaction with and, in competitive business-to-business environments, little reputation information may be available. In human practice, trust in a proposed contract is determined in part from the content of the proposal itself, and the similarity of the content to that of prior contracts, executed to varying degrees of success. In this paper, we argue that such analysis is also appropriate in automated systems, and to provide it we need systems to record salient details of prior contract use and algorithms for assessing proposals on their content. We use provenance technology to provide the former and detail algorithms for measuring contract success and similarity for the latter, applying them to an aerospace case study.

Transactions of the Technical Society of the Pacific Coast.

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Rossiter Worthington Raymond; a memorial, pub. by the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers,

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The Journal of the Engineers' Club of St. Louis

1916-1921 have no subtitle

Offline Emergence Engineering For Agent Societies

Many examples for emergent behaviors may be observed in self-organizing physical and biological systems which prove to be robust, stable, and adaptable. Such behaviors are often based on very simple mechanisms and rules, but artificially creating them is a challenging task which does not comply with traditional software engineering. In this article, we propose a hybrid approach by combining strategies from Genetic Programming and agent software engineering, and demonstrate that this approach effectively yields an emergent design for given problems.

International library of technology; a series of textbooks for persons engaged in the engineering professions and trades,

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Bibliography of periodical literature and publications of learned societies of interest to zoologists in the University of Michigan library /

Reprinted from eighteenth Annual report, Michigan academy of science, December 1916.