• Proceedings of the Korea Inteligent Information System Society Conference
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• 2001.01a
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• pp.156-163
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• 2001

Business forecasting is vital to the success of business. There has been an increasing demand for building business forecasting software system to assist human being to do forecasting. However, the uncertain and complex nature makes is a challenging work to analyze, design and implement software solutions for business forecasting. Traditional forecasting systems in which their models are trained based on small collection of historical data could not meet such challenges at the information explosion over the Internet. This paper presents an agent oriented business forecasting approach for building intelligent business forecasting software systems with high reusability. Although agents have been applied successfully to many application domains. little work has been reported to use the emerging agent oriented technology of this paper is that it explores how agent can be used to help human to manage various business forecasting processes in the whole business forecasting life cycle.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.30 no.10
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• pp.955-972
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• 2003

As the next significant software abstraction, software agents have generated lots of excitements in recent years because of its promise as a new paradigm for conceptualizing, designing, and implementing software systems. This promise is particularly attractive for creating software that operates in environments that are distributed, open, and complex, such as the Internet. The effort of developing agent systems have, however, suffered from lack of generalized agent architecture because of various properties of an agent and nonexistence of a standard agent architecture. An agent architecture is an important criterion in order to not only identify agents in their domain but also determine the software architecture of the system. The major contribution of the work described here is an object-oriented design of an agent architecture that addresses fundamental properties, which are autonomy and interaction. Object-oriented design method is used for identifying the internal modules of an agent architecture and organizing correlation between the modules are identified.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.644-648
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• 2005

Agent-Oriented Software Engineering is the one of the most recent contributions to the field of Software Engineering. This method has many benefits compared in existing development approaches. In particular the ability to let agents represent high level abstraction of active entity in software system. This paper gives an overview of research for agent-oriented software and industrial applications.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.02a
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• pp.374-380
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• 2006

최근 에이전트 기반 시스템을 만들기 위한 기술로서, 에이전트 지향 개발방법론 (Agent Oriented Methodology)이라는 영역이 출현하여, 여러 연구 기관에서 에이전트 시스템을 만드는데 이를 적용한 성공 사례가 늘고 있다. 그러나, 이들을 가지고 복잡한 다중 에이전트 시스템을 개발하는 일은 여전히 경험이 많지 않은 개발자들에게 있어서 어려운 일에 해당된다. 본 논문에서는 개발자에게 에이전트 설계 시 부과되는 이러한 어려운 점을 대한 해결책으로서, 개발자들에게 기능에 따라 분류된 디자인 패턴을 지원하여 다중 에이전트 시스템 설계 및 개발을 지원하는 개발방법론을 제안한다. 또한, 우리는 요구사항 분석부터 코드 생성까지 개발 프로세스에 반영하는 지원 도구를 제안한다. 이 CASE 도구는 단계별 자동화 기능뿐만 아니라, 설계 과정에서 개발자들에게 디자인 패턴을 고려할 수 있는 기능을 제공한다. 이를 통해, 우리는 에이전트 시스템 개발자 및 에이전트에 대한 지식이 부족한 이들에게 멀티에이전트 시스템 설계와 개발을 보다 쉽고 빠르게 해결할 수 있도록 돕는다. 본 논문에서는 여행 도우미 시나리오(Travel Assistant Scenario)을 제안 개발 방법에 따라 적용시켰다. 최종적으로, 보다 쉬운 방식으로 에이전트 소스 코드를 생성해냈으며, 이를 통해 제안 개발방법론이 개발자들의 다중 에이전트 기반 시스템의 개발에 대한 부하를 줄여 줄 수 있다는 결론을 내렸다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Simulation Conference
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.453-458
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• 2001

A mobile agent is an autonomous software agent capable of moving from one computer to another while performing its tasks. We view the agent as a discrete event system in the view of its computation and communication. This paper presents a methodology far modeling and simulation of such a mobile agent system as a discrete event system. The methodology is based on the Mobile Discrete Event System Specification (MDEVS) formalism and the associated simulation environment AgentSim which are previously developed by the authors. Within the methodology an atomic model represents dynamics of a mobile agent; a coupled model is modeled as mobile agent servers for representation of structural changes between atomic agents. Being based on the object-oriented environment the modeling methodology exploits inheritance of basic classes AtomicModel and CoupledModel provided by AgentSim.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.11D no.1
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• pp.133-142
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• 2004

The next generation of web applications will need to be larger, more complex, and flexible Agent-oriented systems have great potential for these e-commerce applications. Agents can dynamically discover and compose e-services and mediate interactions. Development of software agents with CBD (Component Based Development) has proved to be successful in increasing speed to market of development Projects, lowering the development cost and providing better qualify. In this thesis, we propose a systemic development process for software agents using component and UML (Unified Modeling Language). We suggest a etA (e-business Agent) CBD reference architecture for layer the related components through identification and classification of general agent and e-business agent. We also propose the ebA-CBD process that is a guideline to consider the best features of existing agent oriented software engineering methodologies, while grounding agent-oriented concepts in the same underlying semantic framework used by UML. We first developed the agent components specification and modeled it with Goal, Role, Interaction, and Architecture Model. Based on this, we developed e-CPIMAS (e-Commerce Product Information Mailing Agent System) as a case study that provides the product information's mailing service according to proposed process formality. We finally describe how these concepts may assist in increasing the efficiency reusability, productivity and quality to develop the business application and e-business agent.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2005.10a
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• pp.980-983
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• 2005

An agent Is an autonomous process that recognizes external environment, exchanges knowledge with external machines and performs an autonomous decision-making function in order to achieve common goals. The techniques fur tackling complexity in software need to be introduced. That is decomposition, abstraction and organization. Agent-oriented model ing has the merits of decomposition. In decomposition, each autonomous unit may have a control thread. Thread is single sequential flow in program. The use of thread in agent modeling has an important meaning in the performance of CPU and the relation of autonomous units.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.654-660
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• 2005

The internet is comprised of various users with diverse hardware and software platforms. This paper presents a tourism information system which enables the stable and reliable transmission of information over the dispersed, heterogeneous, and/or mobile platforms. The proposed system assumes XML as the basic document format since it has been accepted by W3C as the standard for information exchange on the internet This paper exploits the characteristics of JAVA and XML as they provide software applications independent of the platforms. The proposed system also deploys Aglet, a mobile agent developed by IBM, to ensure a dynamic and flexible performance of the system over the internet. The system provides the user oriented search and retrieval of tourism information, and also enables the reservation of various services and facilities with mobile devices.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.353-356
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• 2005

온톨로지는 에이전트가 지식 레벨 메시지 교환을 위해 사용하는 용어를 정의하는데 중요한 역할을 수행한다. 객체지향 모델링 중 특히 UML은 소프트웨어 공학 분야에서 많은 발전이 이루어져 왔으며, 대부분의 상업용 도구들에 의해 지원될 수 있다. 따라서, 에이전트 시스템에서 온톨로지 표현을 위해 UML을 사용한다면 에이전트 기반 시스템 개념의 이해를 돕는데 매우 효과적일 것이다. 본 연구는 온톨로지 모델링을 위해 UML 사용의 가능성을 제시하고자 한다.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.6 no.10
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• pp.2618-2629
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• 1999

In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of the FDRA(Fault Detection Recovery based on Agent) running on distributed multimedia environment. DOORAE is a good example for distributed multimedia and multimedia distance education system among students and teachers during lecture. It has primitive service agents. Service functions are implemented with objected oriented concept. FDRA is a multi-agent system. It has been environment, intelligent agents interact with each other, either collaboratively or non-collaboratively, to achieve their goals. The main idea is to detect an error by using polling method. This system detects an error by polling periodically the process with relation to session. And, it is to classify the type of error s automatically by using learning rules. The merit of this system is to use the same method to recovery it as it creates a session. FDRA is a system that is able to detect an error, to classify an error type, and to recover automatically a software error based on distributed multimedia environment.