• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.11 no.11
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• pp.4282-4290
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• 2010

Recently, business environment is spreading from singular business to supply-chain problem. SCM(Supply Chain Management) is changing from closed and static to opened and dynamic environment, so these environment changes of SCM require to enterprise different approach than past. As supply chain is becoming opened and dynamic, a claim is being naming that converse of real-time the get reaction from to recognizing the level of supply chain problem, grope of alternative plan to solving this problem and choosing optimum alternative plan raise the enterprise competitive. But until present, the research to deal with these changes of SCM is on insufficient situation. Thus in this paper proposes the agent system by a way of realizing dynamic supply chain. The agent is going to accomplish the management activities in real-time depends on environment and given condition and designed for solving problems development and maintenance. Also, algorithms performance of the agent is tested on TAC SCM environment. Agents in TAC SCM are simulations of small manufacturers, who must compete with each other for both supplies and customers, and manage inventories and production facilities.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.9D no.5
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• pp.963-970
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• 2002

In this paper, after defining the requirements to improve the processing of Internet auction, we design and implement Internet Auction Agent System (IAAS) based on the requirements. IAAS consists of a multi - agent system with buying/selling/negotiation agents for auction processing in accordance with the given price strategy, a graphic interface for supporting price strategies, an information agent for supplying real time information and remote control of agents, and DB. For the mobility, scalability, functionality and communication efficiency of agents, IAAS is implemented by using Java JDK1.3, Servlet, RMI and socket. Through the comparative analysis, we show that IAAS fulfills the requirements defined. IAAS can improve the convenience of users and the efficiency of auction processing, and thus increase the utilization of Internet auction.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.73-94
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• 2010

The attending system is a medical system that allows doctors in clinics to use the extra equipment in hospitals-beds, laboratory, operating room, etc-for their patient's care under a contract between the doctors and hospitals. Therefore, the system is very beneficial in terms of the efficiency of the usage of medical resources. However, it is necessary to develop a strong support system to strengthen its weaknesses and supplement its merits. If doctors use hospital beds under the attending system of hospitals, they would be able to check a patient's condition often and provide them with nursing care services. However, the current attending system lacks delivery and assistance support. Thus, for the successful performance of the attending system, a networking system should be developed to facilitate communication between the doctors and nurses. In particular, the nursing records in the attending system could help doctors monitor the patient's condition and provision of nursing care services. A nursing record is the formal documentation associated with nursing care. It is merely a data repository that helps nurses to track their activities; nursing records thus represent a resource of primary information that can be reused. In order to maximize their usefulness, nursing records have been introduced as part of computerized patient records. However, nursing records are internal data that are not disclosed by hospitals. Moreover, the lack of standardization of the record list makes it difficult to share nursing records. Under the attending system, nurses would want to minimize the amount of effort they have to put in for the maintenance of additional records. Hence, they would try to maintain the current level of nursing records in the form of record lists and record attributes, while doctors would require more detailed and real-time information about their patients in order to monitor their condition. Therefore, this study developed a system for assisting in the maintenance and sharing of the nursing records under the attending system. In contrast to previous research on the functionality of computer-based nursing records, we have emphasized the practical usefulness of nursing records from the viewpoint of the actual implementation of the attending system. We suggested that nurses could design a nursing record dictionary for their convenience, and that doctors and nurses could confirm the definitions that they looked up in the dictionary through negotiations with intelligent agents. Such an agent-based system could facilitate networking among medical institutes. Multi-agent systems are a widely accepted paradigm for the distribution and sharing of computation workloads in the scientific community. Agent-based systems have been developed with differences in functional cooperation, coordination, and negotiation. To increase such communication, a framework for a multi-agent based system is proposed in this study. The agent-based approach is useful for developing a system that promotes trade-offs between transactions involving multiple attributes. A brief summary of our contributions follows. First, we propose an efficient and accurate utility representation and acquisition mechanism based on a preference scale while minimizing user interactions with the agent. Trade-offs between various transaction attributes can also be easily computed. Second, by providing a multi-attribute negotiation framework based on the attribute utility evaluation mechanism, we allow both the doctors in charge and nurses to negotiate over various transaction attributes in the nursing record lists that are defined by the latter. Third, we have designed the architecture of the nursing record management server and a system of agents that provides support to the doctors and nurses with regard to the framework and mechanisms proposed above. A formal protocol has also been developed to create and control the communication required for negotiations. We verified the realization of the system by developing a web-based prototype. The system was implemented using ASP and IIS5.1.

• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.4 no.2 s.14
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• pp.74-81
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• 2003

In the construction industry, projects are becoming increasingly large and complex, involving multiple subcontractors. Traditional centralized coordination techniques used by the general contractors become less effective as subcontractors perform most wok and provide their own resources. When subcontractors cannot provide enough resources, they hinder their own performance as well as that of other subconractors and ultimately the entire project Thus, construction projects need a new distributed coordination approach wherein all of the concerned subcontractors can reschedule a project dynamically. To enable the distributed coordination framework of project schedule changes, the author developed an agent-based compensatory negotiation methodology, which allows intelligent software agents to simulate negotiations on behalf of their human subcontractors. In addition to this theoretical work, 1 designed and implemented a prototype to demonstrate the effectiveness of the framework. Thus, this research formalizes the necessary steps that would help construction project participants to increase the efficiency of their resource use, which in turn will enhance successful completions of whole projects.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.29-34
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• 2016

One of the most important aspects of the research on multi-agent systems is the definition of agent communication languages(ACLs) and the specification of a proper formal semantics of ACLs. In this paper, we propose an illocutionary effect-based FIPA-ACL semantics which overcomes the two traditional semantic approaches. The key idea of this new semantics is based on the semantic concepts of success and satisfaction conditions of illocutionary acts in speech act theory, and the common ground theory-based framework. As case studies using this new semantics, we define the primitive speech acts of FIPA-ACL such as inform and request. For the strengths of the proposed approach we illustrate our new semantics on an e-commerce agent purchase negotiation. Also, we compare this approach with two traditional semantic approaches for ACLs.

• Proceedings of the Korea Database Society Conference
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• 1999.06a
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• pp.217-225
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• 1999

협상은 상거래에 있어서 매우 중요한 요소 중 하나이다. 현재의 웹 기반 전자상거래 시스템은 이러한 중요한 협상 구조를 상거래에 잘 반영하지 못하는 문제점을 가지고 있다. 이러한 문제점중 기업과 소비자간의 미비한 협상 구조를 보안하기 위해 실세계 상거래에서 존재하는 점원을 전자상거래상의 가상점원으로 모델링하여 회사의 정책과 구매자의 특성을 반영하여 구매자와 전략적으로 자동 협상을 수행할 수 있는 에이전트의 구조를 설계하고 구현하였다. 협상은 매우 복잡한 구조를 가지고 있다. 이러한 협상 구조를 지원하기 위해서는 상호간의 제안을 표현하고, 그 제안에 대한 평가 내용과 결정사항을 전달할 수 있는 언어적인 조가 필요하며, 협상의 대상이 되는 사안들의 특성을 반영할 수 있는 표현 구조도 요구된다. 또한 이러한 협상에서 전략을 세우고 알맞은 제안을 제시하며 상대의 제안에 대하여 전략적으로 반응할 수 있는 의사결정 모델이 요구된다. 본 논문에서는 회사의 정책 모델과 구매자의 모델을 정의하고 이를 이용한 협상 모델을 설계 구현하였다. 협상 구조의 모델링을 위해 KQML(Knowledge Query Manipulation Language)을 기반으로 전자상거래 프로토콜로 설계하고, 논쟁 기반 협상 모델을 기초로 협상언어를 설계하였다. 또한 협상에서의 전략적인 의사결정을 위해 게임이론을 이용하고, 규칙 기반 시스템으로 이를 보충하였다. 마지막으로 가상점원 모델을 바탕으로 조립 컴퓨터 판매를 위한 가상점원을 구현하였고, 이에 대한 실험을 통하여 가상점원의 유용성을 보였다.

• Journal of Agricultural Extension & Community Development
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.199-213
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• 2002

The purpose of this study uses agricultural knowledge system theory to explore how the extension system in South Korea was developed and have worked well. By agricultural knowledge system we emphasized the dynamic networks of actors, processes of negotiation, and the diverse ways in which knowledge is constructed and performed. It was possible that individuals may participate in and utilize multiple knowledge systems. The knowledge systems reflected the idea that the boundaries between knowledge groups were not closed and that there could be considerable overlap between knowledge systems. The constructions of agricultural knowledge systems thus included social interactions, communication, and the diverse processes individuals employ to create, use, and evaluate multiple types and sources of information. As such, there were six priorities to development agricultural extension system; the linkage between agricultural colleges, Rural Development Administration(RDA), branch of RDA, establishing the research institution of research and extension linkage. exchange research agent with extension agent, developing information technology system, bottom-up approach, the linkage between national project and regional within extension projects, enforcement of informal learning.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.06d
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• pp.112-114
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• 2006

3세대 이동통신 망에서는 릴레이 노드를 이용한 셀룰러 망과 애드혹 망의 통합을 통해 셀의 용량 및 셀 커버리지의 증가와 인접 셀 간의 부하 밸런싱 효과를 제공할 수 있다. 이러한 이종 무선 통합 망 환경에서 QoS를 제공하기 위해서는 이종 망 간에 데이터 전송 시 서로 다른 망 간의 네트워크 용량을 고려하여 데이터 릴레이 및 QoS 레벨을 일치시켜 줄 수 있는 릴레이 노드의 중계 역할이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 과금 서비스에 기반한 보상금과 수익금 제도를 통하여 애드혹 노드와 셀 기지국 간의 데이터 릴레이 기능 및 QoS를 제공하는 협상 에이전트 기법을 제안하며 ns-2 기반 UMTS/WLAN 시뮬레이터를 이용하여 성능을 분석한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 1999.10b
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• pp.110-112
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• 1999

행위자는 관찰 혹은 결론에 대해 최대로 일관성이 있는 지식베이스의 확장을 필요로 한다. 이와 같은 지식베이스 확장은 상호간에 부합하지 않고 서로 충돌하는 결론을 가지는 모순되는 많은 확장들을 수반한다. 본 논문에서는 adbuction의 개념을 이용하여 지식베이스를 확장시키는 방법을 소개한다. 한편 다중 행위자 시스템에서 문제 해결자로 부르는 행위자들이 효율적으로 상호작용하도록 자동화된 행위자들을 어떻게 설계할 것인가는 매우 중요한 사항이다. 따라서 행위자는 각각의 목표를 통신하여 상호 도움이 되는 일치 상황에 도달하기 위해 타협하도록 설계되어야 한다. 본 논문에서는 argumentation 시스템을 이용하여 믿음, 소망, 그리고 의지를 가진 BDI 행위자 구조를 위한 기초적인 자동화된 협상 모델을 소개한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Association of Information Systems Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.109-121
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• 2004

현재 오프라인에서 행해지고 있는 거래들을 온라인에서 지원하기 위란 거래 시스템에 대한 연구들이 많이 진행되고 있다. 하지만 이러한 거래 시스템들은 일반적인 상거래, 즉 판매자가 제시한 가격에 구매자가 구매를 하는 고정가격제 거래방식을 지원하는 시스템이 대부분 이었고 판매자와 구매자가 협상을 통해 적절한 가격선을 찾을 수 있도록 지원해 주는 거래 시스템에 대한 연구는 미흡하다. 이러한 자동 협상 시스템은 전자상거래 환경에서의 다양한 환경변화와 복잡한 문제 등에 보다 빠르고 유연하게 대처하고 많은 협상을 일관성있고 효율적으로 수행하기 위해서 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 전자상거래 환경에서 자동으로 협상을 수행하는 자동협상시스템을 개발하였다. 이 시스템은 협상안을 자동으로 생성하고, 또한 상대방의 협상안을 평가하여 Counter 협상안을 작성${\cdot}$전송하거나 Accept 또는 Reject를 할 수 있는 멀티 에이전트 기반 자동협상 시스템이다.