• The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.91-110
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• 2012

Recently the effort of retailers improving the efficiency of store operations by using the information technology (IT) is increasing. Among them, the analysis of the shoppers' flow in retail stores is one of the critical tasks since it is an essential part in optimizing store layout and item grouping, and in developing the customized services specialized to shoppers' classification. Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation (ABMS) is one of the most promising methods which support analyzing the shoppers' flow. In this paper, we suggested a shopper's behavior model and developed an agent-based simulator for optimizing the operations of retail stores. In order to model the shoppers' behavior, we analyzed the behavioral characteristics of shoppers based on their shopping lists, suggesting BDI-based agent models of the shoppers' behavior. The shopping agent model were suggested, which has an additional mental state, the shopper's behavioral characteristic, as well as the original mental states of the BDI theory which has beliefs, desires and Intentions. The result of this study can be used in as a preliminary study for modeling and simulation of retail stores congestion and in the end the optimization of item grouping and store layout.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.461-464
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 실시간 반응형 로봇의 행위를 지정하기에 적합한 에이전트 언어를 소개한다. 기존의 BDI 기반의 에이전트 언어를 기반으로 실시간 반응형 로봇의 행위를 지정하는데 적합하도록 개발한 VivAce 에이전트 구조에 대해서 설명하고 이를 이용한 간단한 시뮬레이션을 수행하였다. 또한 VivAce 가 기존의 BDI 에이전트 언어에 비해서 가지는 새로운 특징인 자바 네이티브 언어 지원, 쓰레드 기반의 계획 실행, 다양한 인터페이스를 소개한다.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Industry Society
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• v.5 no.9
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• pp.1089-1094
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• 2004

Agents in Mlulti-Agent Systems (MAS) should make use of a common Agent Communication Language (ACL) in order to negotiate with others, and conform to negotiation protocols that are designed to reach agreements. Therefore, agents must have suitable architectures that could cover above requirements. In this paper, we define an instructive ACL and compare it with other ACLs such as Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents(FIPA) ACL and Knowledge Query Manipulation Language (KQML). In particular, we represent agents as logic programs with beliefs, desires, intentions and negotiation library. Finally, we show how the planner, which is in the negotiation library, provides plans of actions and updates agent's beliefs.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.118-120
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 동적인 환경에서 동작하는 에이전트들을 위한 범용의 에이전트 구조에 대해 설명한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 CM 는 에이전트의 모든 부분을 하나의 객체 지향 언어로 구현할 수 있는 순수 Java 기반의 범용 에이전트 구조이며, 긴 수행시간을 필요로 하는 복잡한 행위들을 효과적으로 표현하고 수행할 수 있는 기능을 제공한다. 이를 위해 환경 연화에 따라 수행 중이던 행위를 즉각적으로 중단하거나 다른 행위로 전환할 수 있는 높은 정황 -민감성을 제공한다. 또 CAA는 상황에 따른 가변적인 목표를 암시하는 행동 모드를 내부에 저장, 관리함으로써 BDI 구조와 유사한 목표- 지향성을 가진다.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.243-253
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• 2019

First steps of Planetary exploration are usually conducted with the use of autonomous rovers. These rovers are capable of finding its own path and perform experiments about the planet's surface. This paper makes a proposal for a multi-agent system which effectively take the advantage of a blackboard system for share knowledge and effort of each agent. Agents use Reactive Model with the combination of Belief Desire Intension (BDI) Model and also use a Path Finding Algorithm for calculate shortest distance and a path for travel on the planet's surface. This approach can perform a surface exploration on a given terrain within a short period of time. Information which are gathered on the blackboard are used to make an output with detailed surface soil variance results. The developed Multi-Agent system performed well with different terrain sizes.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.02a
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• pp.579-582
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• 2009

With the aid of the increasing interests of Context-aware Augmented Reality Agent (AR Agent), various researches of AR Agent have been performed to explore the possibility of the agent as novel interface and the entity responding autonomously by user's input. However, in previous works, AR Agents are lack of specific method for using various contextual information. To revolve around those problems, we propose the Behavior Generation System for Context-aware AR Agent using layered architecture. Based on Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) model and Hierarchical Task Network (HTN) searching, the sequence of agent behavior has been selected in behavior planning layer. Then, the agent evaluates appropriateness of behaviors using previous behavior and the type of input before activation. This behavior generation system can be applied for edutainment, game, and assistant agent, which need intuitive and effective behaviors to convey information. Through this research, we expect that the Context-aware AR Agent could support for not only information delivery, but also the capability of effective communication for user.

• Proceedings of the Korea Inteligent Information System Society Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.222-229
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• 2002

A value net is a business design that uses digital supply chain concepts to achieve both superior customer satisfaction and company profitability. In order to implement the value net model, information processing and distribution needs to occur in real time. Software agent technology is becoming popular due to the inherent characteristics of autonomy, distributedness and modularity. In this paper, we adopt agent technology to handle all real time decision process, making the value net model a complex multi-agent network of decision makers. For the agents to properly coordinate their respective activities we develop MAVN model, a Web-based multi-agent language grounded in the XML and Java.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.11b
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• pp.685-687
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• 2005

시맨틱 웹서비스와 관련하여 서비스 검색 및 조합에 관하여 많은 연구들이 이루어지고 있으나 인터넷의 특성을 고려할 때 서비스 실행에 관한 연구는 웹서비스의 안정적인 제공이라는 측면에서 고려되어야 한다. 이를 위해서는 실행과정에 의미적 접근이 시도되어야 하는데, BDI 구조 기술이 적절한 대안 기술이 될 수 있다. BDI 구조를 이용한 웹서비스 실행기는 특성상 실시간으로 데이터 타입과 의미의 일관성을 추론해 내고, 해당 서비스의 실행을 위한 조건과 영향을 고려하여, 제약조건의 변화 시에도 능동적으로 대처할 수 있는 장점을 갖게 된다. 우리는 웹서비스 실행기로서 SWEEP 시스템을 개발하고 이를 진료예약 서비스에 적용함으로써 그 효용성을 밝히고자 하였다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.10B no.1
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• pp.1-12
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• 2003

In this paper, we Introduce the Unreal Tournament (UT) game and the Gamebots system. The former it a well-known 3D first-person action game and the latter is an intelligent agent research testbed based on UT And then we explain the design and implementation of KGBot, which is an intelligent non-player character deploying effectively within the 3D virtual environment provided by UT and the Gamebots system. KGBot is a bot client within the Gamebots System. KGBot accomplishes its own task to find out and dominate several domination points pro-located on the complex surface map of 3D virtual environment KGBot adopts UM-PRS as its control engine, which is a general BDI agent architecture. KGBot contains a hierarchical knowledge base representing its complex behaviors in multiple layers. In this paper, we explain details of KGBot's Intelligent behaviors, tuck af locating the hidden domination points by exploring the unknown world effectively. constructing a path map by collecting the waypoints and paths distributed over the world, and finding an optimal path to certain destination based on this path graph. Finally we analyze the performance of KGBot exploring strategy and control engine through some experiments on different 3D maps.

• Proceedings of the Korea Inteligent Information System Society Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.163-170
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• 2005

컴퓨팅 환경이 점점 분산되고 협업의 필요성이 점점 증대되고 시스템간에 상호작용(interaction)이 동적이고 복잡해지면서 기존의 협업 시스템 패러다임을 벗어난 커뮤니티 컴퓨팅을 구성하는 요소를 정의하고 커뮤니티 모델의 에이전트들의 상호작용 유형을 프로토콜의 형식으로 모델링 하는 방법과 지정된 프로토콜들을 실행하기 위한 방법으로소 에이전트 플랜(plan)을 이용하는 방안을 제안한다. 커뮤니티를 구성하는 요소들은 역할(role), 정책(policy), 구성원(member), 프로토콜(protocol)등이며 각각의 요소는 BDI 구조를 가지는 에이전트와 플랜, 목적(goal), 사실(fact)등의 결합으로 표현이 가능하다. 에이전트들은 프로토콜에 나타나는 유형을 서술한 플랜을 통해서 상호작용을 하게 된다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 프로토콜을 실행 가능한 플랜으로 변환하기 위한 4가지 유형을 파악하여 각각의 유형을 플랜으로 변환하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 시뮬레이션을 통하여 완전성과 유효성을 보인다.