Trends in Practical Applications of Agents and Multiagent Systems : 11th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

Research on Agents and Multi-agent Systems has matured during the last decade and many effective applications of this technology are now deployed. PAAMS provides an international forum to presents and discuss the latest scientific developments and their effective applications, to assess the impact of the approach, and to facilitate technology transfer. PAAMS started as a local initiative, but since grown to become the international yearly platform to present, to discuss, and to disseminate the latest developments and the most important outcomes related to real-world applications. It provides a unique opportunity to bring multi-disciplinary experts, academics and practitioners together to Exchange their experience in the development and deployment of Agents and Multi-agents systems. PAAMS intends to bring together researchers and developers from industry and the academic world to report on the latest scientific and technical advances on the application of multi-agent systems, to discuss and debate the major issues, and to showcase the latest systems using agent based technology. It will promote a forum for discussion on how agent based techniques, methods and tools help system designers to accomplish the mapping between available agent technology and application needs. Other stakeholders should be rewarded with a better understanding of the potential and challenges of the agent-oriented approach. This edition of PAAMS special sessions is organized by the Bioinformatics, Intelligent System and Educational Technology Research Group (http://bisite.usal.es) of the University of Salamanca. The present edition was held in Salamanca, Spain, from 22nd to 24th May 2013. Trends in Practical Applications of Agents and Multiagent Systems Preface 5 Organization 7 Contents 12 Special Session on Agents Behaviours and Artificial Markets (ABAM) 12 A Stylized Software Model to Explore the Free Market Equality/Efficiency Tradeoff 15 1 Introduction 15 2 The Model 17 3 TheResults 19 4 Conclusions 22 Reference 22 Towards a Dynamic Negotiation Mechanism for QoS-Aware Service Markets 23 1 Introduction 23 2 Selecting Services through Automated Negotiation 24 2.1 The Negotiation Evaluation 25 2.2 The Negotiation Strategy 26 3 A Cost-Based Testbed 27 3.1 Experimental Results 28 4 Conclusions 29 References 30 Special Session on Agents and Mobility (AM) 12 D3S – A Distributed Storage Service 31 1 Introduction 31 2 Storage on the Cloud 32 2.1 Amazon S3 33 3 Distributed S3 Storage Service 34 3.1 Overall System Architecture 35 3.2 Bucket and Object management 36 4 Conclusions and Future work 37 References 37 Evaluation of the Color-Based Image Segmentation Capabilities of a Compact Mobile Robot Agent Based on Google Android Smartphone 39 1 Introduction 39 2 Background 40 2.1 Soccer Mobile Robots 40 2.2 Fast Color-Based Image Segmentation 41 3 Mobile Robot Implementation 41 3.1 Image Processing Implementation 42 3.2 Influence of the Image Color Space 42 4 Fast Image Segmentation 43 5 Conclusion 46 References 46 Distributed and Specialized Agent Communities 47 1 Introduction 47 2 Related Work 48 3 SCODA 50 4 Results 51 5 Conclusions 52 References 53 A Gateway Protocol Based on FIPA-ACL for the New Agent Platform PANGEA 55 1 Introduction 55 2 Background 56 3 Pangea Overview 57 3.1 Gateway Pangea-ACL Messages 58 4 Case Study 62 5 Results and Conclusions 63 References 63 Applying Classifiers in Indoor Location System 66 1 Introduction 66 2 Background 67 3 Proposed Reasoning System 68 4 Results and Conclusions 69 References 71 Geo-localization System for People with Cognitive Disabilities 72 1 Introduction 72 2 Related Work 73 3 System Description 74 3.1 Cognitive Helper Mobile Application 75 3.2 Caregiver Applications 77 4 Conclusion and Future Work 78 References 79 Special Session on Intelligent Components Producing and Consuming Knowledge and Data (ICP) 13 Adding Sense to Patent Ontologies: A Representation of Concepts and Reasoning 80 1 Introduction 80 2 Related Work 81 3 Analysis of Hierarchical Classification Codes 82 3.1 Restrictions of the Patent Classification Codes 82 3.2 HTCOntology: A Proposed Transformation of Hierarchical Codes into Concepts 83 3.3 Populating the Patent Ontology and HTCOntology 84 4 Case Study: Introducing a New Patent Code 84 5 Conclusions 86 References 87 Representation of Clinical Practice Guideline Components in OWL 89 1 Introduction 89 2 Advantages of Ontology Web Language 90 3 CompGuide Ontology 92 3.1 Representation of Administrative Information 92 3.2 Construction of Workflow Procedures 92 3.3 Definition of Temporal Constraints 93 3.4 Definition of Clinical Constraints 95 4 Discussion and Conclusions 95 References 96 Special Sessions COoperative and RE-configurable MultiAgent System (COREMAS) 13 Dynamically Maintaining Standards Using Incentives 98 1 Introduction 98 2 Incentive-Based Mechanism to Maintain Standards 99 2.1 Targeting Standards 100 2.2 Actions, Outcomes and Incentives 100 2.3 Deviations and Responses 101 3 Experiments 103 4 Conclusions and Future Work 104 References 105 Self-organizing Prediction in Smart Grids through Delegate Multi-Agent Systems 106 1 Introduction 106 2 Scope 107 3 Self-organizing Prediction in Smart Grids 109 3.1 Structural Decomposition 109 3.2 Single Source of Truth 110 3.3 Delegate MAS 110 3.4 Smart Grid as a Dynamic Environment 111 4 Software Engineering for Smart Grids 111 5 Conclusion 112 5.1 Contribution 112 5.2 Future Research 113 References 113 Holonic Recursiveness with Multi-Agent System Technologies 114 1 Introduction 114 2 Holonic and MAS Recursiveness 116 3 Synthesis 120 4 Conclusion 121 References 121 Special Session on Multi-Agent Systems for Multi-sensor Activity Interpretation (MASMAI) 13 Intelligent Energy Management System for the Optimization of Power Consumption 123 1 Introduction 123 2 Data Mining for Forecasting Power Consumption 124 3 INTELEM 124 3.1 Local Energy Management Unit 125 3.2 Central Energy Management and Intelligent System 126 4 Data Mining Algorithm 128 5 Conclusions and Future Works 129 References 130 Find It – An Assistant Home Agent 131 1 Introduction 131 2 General Directions of AAL-Related Research 132 3 Multi-Agent Home Platform 133 4 Object Recognition and Location 134 5 Conclusions and Future Work 136 References 137 Efficient People Counting from Indoor Overhead Video Camera 139 1 Introduction 139 2 FromINT3-Horus Framework to People Counting System 140 2.1 The INT3-Horus Framework 140 2.2 INT3-Horus Levels for People Counting 141 3 DataandResults 144 4 Conclusions 146 References 146 Modeling Intelligent Agents to Integrate a Patient Monitoring System 148 1 Introduction 149 2 Background 149 2.1 Multi-Agent Systems 150 2.2 Interoperability 150 2.3 AIDA 150 3 INTCare 151 4 PaLMS 151 4.1 Event-Based Model 152 4.2 Multi-Agent System 152 5 Conclusions and Future Work 154 References 154 Special Session on Self-Explaining Agents (SEA) 14 Towards Self-Explaining Agents 156 1 Introduction 156 2 Self-Explanation in a Nutshell 157 3 Towards Self-Explanatory Descriptions 158 4 Formal Foundation 159 5 Conclusion 162 References 162 Semi-automated Generation of Semantic Service Descriptions 164 1 Introduction 164 2 Background 165 2.1 OWL-S 166 2.2 JIAC V 166 3 Approach 167 4 Example 169 5 Conclusion 170 References 170 Patience in Group Decision-Making with Emotional Agents 172 1 Introduction 172 2 Agents with Personality, Emotions and Mood 173 2.1 Personality, Emotions and Mood 174 3 Patience within Emotional Agents 175 4 Model Evaluation 177 5 Conclusion and Future Work 178 References 178 Special Session on Web Mining and Recommender Systems (WebMiReS) 14 Analysis of Web Usage Data for Clustering Based Recommender System 180 1 Introduction 180 2 Related Work 181 3 Web Usage Data Analysis 181 4 Data Preprocessing for Recommender Systems 183 5 Recommender System: An Application 186 6 Conclusion 187 References 187 Multi-label Classification for Recommender Systems 189 1 Introduction 189 2 Multi-label Classification 190 3 Recommender Systems 191 4 Multi-label Classification in Recommender Systems 192 5 Empirical Study 193 6 Conclusions and Future Work 195 References 195 If It’s on Web It’s Yours! 197 1 Introduction 197 2 Methods 198 3 Use Case 199 4 Conclusion 200 5 Legal Liability 200 References 200 User Assistance Tool for a WebService ERP 201 1 Introduction 201 2 ERP 203 3 User Behavior Data Base 203 4 Social Network 204 5 User Assistant Tool 205 6 Conclusions and Future Work 206 References 206 TV-SeriesRec: A Recommender System Based on Fuzzy Associative Classification and Semantic Information 209 1 Introduction 209 2 Background 210 3 Recommendation Methodology 211 3.1 Induction of Recommendation Models 212 3.2 Recommendation Process 213 3.3 CBA-Fuzzy Validation 214 4 TV-SeriesRec System 214 5 Conclusions 216 References 216 Author Index 217 Front Matter....Pages 1-13 A Stylized Software Model to Explore the Free Market Equality/Efficiency Tradeoff....Pages 1-8 Towards a Dynamic Negotiation Mechanism for QoS-Aware Service Markets....Pages 9-16 D3S – A Distributed Storage Service....Pages 17-24 Evaluation of the Color-Based Image Segmentation Capabilities of a Compact Mobile Robot Agent Based on Google Android Smartphone....Pages 25-32 Distributed and Specialized Agent Communities....Pages 33-40 A Gateway Protocol Based on FIPA-ACL for the New Agent Platform PANGEA....Pages 41-51 Applying Classifiers in Indoor Location System....Pages 53-58 Geo-localization System for People with Cognitive Disabilities....Pages 59-66 Adding Sense to Patent Ontologies: A Representation of Concepts and Reasoning....Pages 67-75 Representation of Clinical Practice Guideline Components in OWL....Pages 77-85 Dynamically Maintaining Standards Using Incentives....Pages 87-94 Self-organizing Prediction in Smart Grids through Delegate Multi-Agent Systems....Pages 95-102 Holonic Recursiveness with Multi-Agent System Technologies....Pages 103-111 Intelligent Energy Management System for the Optimization of Power Consumption....Pages 113-120 Find It – An Assistant Home Agent....Pages 121-128 Efficient People Counting from Indoor Overhead Video Camera....Pages 129-137 Modeling Intelligent Agents to Integrate a Patient Monitoring System....Pages 139-146 Towards Self-Explaining Agents....Pages 147-154 Semi-automated Generation of Semantic Service Descriptions....Pages 155-162 Patience in Group Decision-Making with Emotional Agents....Pages 163-170 Analysis of Web Usage Data for Clustering Based Recommender System....Pages 171-179 Multi-label Classification for Recommender Systems....Pages 181-188 If It’s on Web It’s Yours!....Pages 189-192 User Assistance Tool for a WebService ERP....Pages 193-200 TV-SeriesRec: A Recommender System Based on Fuzzy Associative Classification and Semantic Information....Pages 201-208 Back Matter....Pages 209-210 This book brings together researchers and developers from industry and the academic world to report on the latest scientific and technical advances on the application of multi-agent systems, to discuss and debate the major issues, and to showcase the latest systems using agent based technology