Highlights of Practical Applications of Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Systems : the PAAMS Collection : PAAMS 2014 International Workshops, Salamanca, Spain, June 4-6, 2014 : proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the workshops which complemented the 12th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, PAAMS 2014, held in Salamanca, Spain, in June 2014. This volume presents the papers that have been accepted for the following workshops: Workshop on Agent-based Approaches for the Transportation Modeling and Optimization (AATMO 2014); Workshop on Agent-based Modeling and Simulation of Complex Systems: Engineering and Applications (ABSEA 2014); Workshop on Agents and Multi-Agent Systems for Ambient-assisted Living and e-Health (A-HEALTH 2014); Workshop on Agent-based Solutions for Manufacturing and Supply Chain (AMSC 2014); Workshop on Intelligent Systems for Context-based Information Fusion (ISCIF 2014); Workshop on Multi-Agent based Applications for Smart Grids and Sustainable Energy Systems (MASGES 2014); Workshop on Active Security Through Multi-Agent Systems (WASMAS 2014); Workshop on Intelligent Human-Agent Societies (WIHAS 2014). Front Matter....Pages - Practical Approach and Multi-agent Platform for Designing Real Time Adaptive Scheduling Systems....Pages 1-12 Multi-Agent Based Simulation of Environmental Pollution Issues: A Review....Pages 13-21 Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation for the Design of the Future European Air Traffic Management System: The Experience of CASSIOPEIA....Pages 22-33 Risk Management in Construction Project Using Agent-Based Simulation....Pages 34-43 Doubt Removal for Dependant People from Tablet Computer Usage Monitoring....Pages 44-53 Development of Electrolarynx by Multi-agent Technology and Mobile Devices for Prosody Control....Pages 54-65 A BDI Emotional Reasoning Engine for an Artificial Companion....Pages 66-78 Assessment of Agent Architectures for Telehealth....Pages 79-88 Cognitive Architecture of an Agent for Human-Agent Dialogues....Pages 89-100 A Different Approach in an AAL Ecosystem: A Mobile Assistant for the Caregiver....Pages 101-110 HomeCare, Elder People Monitoring System and TV Communication....Pages 111-120 A Multi-Agent Approach to the Multi-Echelon Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem....Pages 121-132 Mixing ABS and DES Approach to Modeling of a Delivery Process in the Automotive Industry....Pages 133-143 Agent Based Approach for Modeling Disturbances in Supply Chain....Pages 144-155 Combining Simulation and Multi-agent Systems for Solving Enterprise Process Flows Constraints in an Enterprise Modeling Aided Tool....Pages 156-166 A Proposal for Processing and Fusioning Multiple Information Sources in Multimodal Dialog Systems....Pages 167-178 PHuNAC Model: Creating Crowd Variation with the MBTI Personality Mode....Pages 179-190 Ambient Intelligence: Applications and Privacy Policies....Pages 191-201 High-Level Information Fusion for Risk and Accidents Prevention in Pervasive Oil Industry Environments....Pages 202-213 An Agent-Based Framework for Aggregation of Manageable Distributed Energy Resources....Pages 214-225 The Proper Role of Agents in Future Resilient Smart Grids....Pages 226-237 Symphony – Agent-Based Platform for Distributed Smart Grid Experiments....Pages 238-249 Consensus in Smart Grids for Decentralized Energy Management....Pages 250-261 Elspot: Nord Pool Spot Integration in MASCEM Electricity Market Simulator....Pages 262-272 Particle Swarm Optimization of Electricity Market Negotiating Players Portfolio....Pages 273-284 Bilateral Contracting in Multi-agent Energy Markets with Demand Response....Pages 285-296 Risk Management and Bilateral Contracts in Multi-agent Electricity Markets....Pages 297-308 Artificial Neural Networks in the Detection of Known and Unknown DDoS Attacks: Proof-of-Concept....Pages 309-320 A Multiagent Self-healing System against Security Incidents in MANETs....Pages 321-332 An Agent-Based Cloud Platform for Security Services....Pages 333-343 An Architecture Proposal for Human-Agent Societies....Pages 344-357 Using Natural Interfaces for Human-Agent Immersion....Pages 358-367 Understanding Decision Quality through Satisfaction....Pages 368-377 Improving Intelligent Systems: Specialization....Pages 378-385 Back Matter....Pages -