• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2001.04b
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• pp.325-327
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• 2001

멀티에이전트 시스템(MAS: Multi-Agent System)에서 에이전트는 각자의 목표 달성을 위해 주위 에이전트들과 상호작용하여 목표의 충돌이 없는 일치 상황에 도달하도록 설계될 필요가 있다. 이러한 상호작용은 MAS에서의 협동, 공조, 그리고 협상 등의 분양에 필수적인 요소이다. 본 연구에서는 MAS에서 믿음(Belief), 소망(Desire), 그리고 의도(Intention)를 에이전트 구조의 핵심 요소로 가정하고, FIPA Agent Communication Language(ACL) 사양과 interaction 프로토콜의 변형에 기초하여 BDI 에이전트를 위한 협상 프로토콜을 소개한다. 또한 Java와 Prolog를 결합시킨 InterProlog 프로그래밍 언어로 목표 충돌을 일으키는 BDI 에이전트들을 생성하고 에이전트들이 협상 프로토콜을 사용하여 협상하는 과정을 시험적으로 구현한다.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.1-20
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• 2009

Negotiation is a process of reaching an agreement on the terms of a transaction. such as price, quantity, for two or more parties. Negotiation tries to maximize the benefits for all parties concerned. instead of using human-based negotiation. the e-commerce environment provides such an environment as adopting automated negotiation. Thus. choosing agent technology is appropriate for an automatic electronic negotiation platform. since autonomous software agents strive for the best deal on behalf of the human participants. Negotiation agents need a clear-cut definition of negotiation models or strategies. In reality, most bargaining systems embody nearly one negotiation model. In this article. we present a mobile agent negotiation system with reusable negotiation strategies that allows agents to dynamically embody a user's favorite negotiation strategy which can be preinstalled as a component in the system. We develop a prototype system, which is fully implemented in compliance with FIPA specifications, and then. describe the benefits of using the system.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.34 no.9
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• pp.817-827
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• 2007

In the age of ubiquitous environment, huge number of devices and computing services are provided to users. Personalized service, which is modeled according to the character of each and every individual is of particular need. In order to provide various dynamic services according to user's movement, service unit and operating mode should be able to operate automatically with minimum user intervention. In this paper, we discuss the steps of offering approximate service based on user's request in ubiquitous environment. First, we present our simulator designed for modeling the physical resource and computing object in smart space - the infrastructure in ubiquitous. Second, intelligent agents, which we developed based on a FIPA specification compliant multi-agent framework will be discussed. These intelligent agents are developed for achieving the service goal through cooperation between distributed agents. Third, we propose an automated service discovery and composition method in heterogeneous environment using semantic message communication between agents, according to the movement by the user interacting with the service available in the smart space. Fourth, we provide personalized service through agent monitoring anytime, anywhere from user's profile information stored on handhold device. Therefore, our research provides high quality service more than general automated service operation.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.32 no.3
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• pp.192-201
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• 2005

For the past ten years, the goal of ubiquitous computing research has been the establishment of a new technology system with the aim 'Anytime, Anywhere, and Any form'. The needs for agent technology innovations such as ontology-based structure, ontology-based agent communication language, and multi-agents frameworks have been identified. This paper proposes a noble multi-agents architecture for ubiquitous systems. We suggest four major steps in the interaction between human and agents which enable ubiquitous agents to process by themselves to provide adaptive service to meet human's needs. First, we propose a semantic web technology to represent the association between information resources more explicitly Second, we construct a semantic ontology so that agents can recognize web contents.'Third, we propose a method to communicate between agents using OWL ontologies. Finally, we suggest a multi-agents structure based on the JADE of FIPA to analyze messages and get information. The semantic multi-agents framework proposed in this paper infers semantic situations using semantic web technology based on ontologies. A service provided is inferred differently according to user state because the multi-agents communicate by using OWL ontology language. Therefore, our system better infers context information than other without ontologies.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2007.02a
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• pp.41-44
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• 2007

최근 유비쿼터스 환경이 도래함에 따라, 모바일 장비의 이용이 급격하게 증가하였다. 또한 이러한 모바일 장비와 더불어 각종 모바일 기반의 서비스 들이 나타나고 있다. 특히, 모바일 기반의 대표적인 서비스 중에서 메신저 서비스는 다중사용자간의 대화, 파일 전송, 위치 추적 등의 다양한 서비스를 제공한다. 그러나 이러한 메신저 서비스의 수가 증가함에 따라, 사용자에게 선택의 어려움을 줄 수 있다. 또한, 이러한 각각의 메신저 벤더간의 프로토콜이 다르므로, 메신저간의 통합이 어렵다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 이기종 메신저간의 통합을 위한 에이전트 기반의 모바일 메신저 서비스의 아키텍처를 소개한다. 제안하는 메신저 서비스는 멀티 에이전트로 구성되며, 각각의 메신저 서비스의 사용자를 에이전트화 하여 에이전트간의 협업과 통신을 통한 메시지 송, 수신 및 파일 전송 등의 다양한 기능을 수행한다. 또한 제안하는 메신저 서비스는 에이전트 표준인 FIPA-ACL통신 규약을 준수함으로써, 에이전트 기반의 이기종 메신저 서비스와의 통신을 통한 통합 프레임워크를 제공한다.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Industry Society
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• v.5 no.9
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• pp.1055-1062
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• 2004

Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a standard language for specifying, visualizing, constructing, and documenting the artifacts of software systems. On the other hand, XML, which is a meta-language, provides meta-data types for representing and string objects. It make software development easy because it can represent various information and share information about the software analysis and design between developers, In this paper, we apply BitWiz, one of automated software generation systems, to a bid application and analyse this in UML point of view. Also, we briefly introduce an XML documentation from UML products and a verification method of XML documents from UML products.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.44-49
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• 2007

An agent is an abstract unit for problem solving in the field of distributed artificial intelligence, and an agent-based system is designed and implemented based on the definition of agent as its central concept. Agent modeling is advantageous to abstraction, disintegration and structuring for describing complex system, so its application is increased in various areas including air traffic control, power transmission, e-commerce and medicine. There is no agreed definition of agent but agents have common points as follows: autonomy, reactivity, pro-activeness and cooperation. An agent-oriented modeling is an approach of a concept different form existing object-oriented modeling. This study proposed the agent application for E-Beam manufacturing system. To evaluate the performance of the proposed process design, we used the JADE library. The JADE toolkit provides a FIPA-compliant agent platform and a package to develp Java agents. It provides a basic set of functionalities that are regarded as essential for an autonomous agent architecture.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2007.10b
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• pp.78-83
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• 2007

최근 유비쿼터스 환경에서 동작하는 지능형 시스템에 관한 관심이 높아지면서, 이러한 지능형 시스템의 개발을 효율적으로 하기 위해 에이전트 기반의 소프트웨어 시스템 개발 방법론 및 지원 도구에 관심이 높아지고 있다. 이러한 시스템들은 에이전트들의 동작환경을 제공하는 에이전트 플랫폼의 사용이 필수적이다. 그러나 실제로 에이전트 기반 시스템을 개발하는 경우 초기 단계에서 가장 적절한 에이전트 플랫폼을 결정하는 것은 어렵다. 또한 개발 중에 다양한 에이전트 플랫폼에 적용 가능한 소프트웨어를 개발해야 하는 경우가 발생할 수 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위해 MBA를 기반으로 에이전트 기반 시스템 개발 방법론 및 개발 지원 도구를 제공하고자 한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 방법을 통해 개발자는 개발 초기 단계에서 결정된 소프트웨어의 아키텍처를 기반으로 다양한 플랫폼에 적용 가능한 에이전트 모델과 소스코드를 생성시킬 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 플랫폼 독립적인 에이전트 모델을 통하여 FIPA-OS와 MTI 에이전트 플랫폼 기반의 소스코드를 생성시키는 실험을 하여 제안 방법론 및 도구의 유효성을 검증한다.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.160-169
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• 2006

The goal of this paper is to propose a way to register agents so that makes users or autonomousagents to find target agents more conveniently and efficiently. In order to achieve this goal, we first survey the key technologies such as UDDI, ebXML, FIPA DF. As the results, we designed a new agent legistry/repository system based on ebXML technologies. We introduce our agent/repository system for wide area network and describe how to use our system for agent registering and searching target agents for communications. Finally, we give an example to illustrate a typical scenario in which user receives the results from our proposed agent registry/repository system and evaluate its characteristics in terms of advantage.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.275-282
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• 2011

Current service discovery protocols such as UPnP, Jini, SLP provide the basic function which is message exchange pattern, service representation and description, in service discovery. They does not guarantee service interoperability among service discovery. Therefore, in this paper, we design and implement CLAM (Component-based Autonomic Layered Middleware) agent platform to enable an efficient service discovery through extension of DF agent function in FIPA-compliant specification. Also, we propose an efficient service discovery mechanism using DHT-Chord algorithm to guarantee scalability and interoperability in DF agent.