• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.167-186
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• 1999

인터넷 유통업은 기본적으로 대량 트랜잭션 발생을 목표로 한다. 본 논문에서는 인터넷 유통업의 대표적인 형태인 인터넷 쇼핑몰 운영을 위한 내부 프로세스 에이전트를 정의하고 이들의 참조 구축 프레임웍을 제시하고 있다. 인터넷 쇼핑몰의 후방 프로세스를 분석해 보았으며 이를 토대로 다양한 운영층 프로세스 에이전트 유형과 특성을 정의하였다. 또한, 다수의 에이전트로 구성된 프로세스 에이전트팀 조직과 활동 원칙도 제시하였다. 에이전트의 구현을 위해 멀티쓰레딩 기법을 사용하였다. 단순한 데이터 처리를 담당하는 운영층 프로세스 에이전트에 대한 연구는 향후 보다 복잡한 지능을 가진 전략층 프로세스 에이전트에 대한 연구로 발전할 것이다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Association of Information Systems Conference
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.3-10
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• 2004

멀티 에이전트 기술은 다양한 환경변화와 복잡한 문제 능에 보다 빠르고 유연하게 대처하기 위한 새로운 패러다임으로 부각되고 있다. 따라서 많은 분야에서 동적인 문제를 해결하기 위해 멀티 에이전트 시스템 구축하고자 연구가 진행중이다. 그러나, 기존의 멀티 에이전트 시스템을 개발하기 위한 Framework에 관한 연구들은 사용자를 대신하여 자율적으로 작업을 수행하는 일반적인 에이전트간의 정보 교환과 공유, 에이전트의 재활용, 이형질의 에이전트를 통합하기 위해 서로 각기 다른 에이전트간 사업 협력 구조를 제시하는 연구, 즉 멀티 에이전트가 가지는 기본적인 기능만을 제시한 Framework가 대부분이었다. 이러한 기존 멀티 에이전트 Framework의 한계점을 해결하고자 최형림 외 5명은 기본적인 멀티 에이전트 Framework의 기능뿐만 아니라 협상이라는 문제를 해결하기 위해 필요한 기능을 가지고 있는 MAFNS(Multi-Agent Framework for Negotiation Systems)를 설계하였다. 본 연구에서는 MAFNS의 구조를 이용하여 협상 메시지에 대한 평가, 협상 메시지의 관리, 협상 에이전트간의 빠르고 안정된 메시지 교환 지원 등과 같은 협상에 필요한 필수적인 요구 기능을 에이전트로 개발하고 각 에이전트 간의 유기적인 협력을 통해 자동으로 서버 판매 협상 문제를 해결할 수 있는 에이전트 시스템을 개발하였다.

• The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.119-137
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• 1999

The World Wide Web(WWW) has provided multi-media cyberspace for electronic markets where suppliers and demanders can do global electronic business with each other directly and conveniently. There are two contradictory views on the roles of intermediaries in electronic markets. One says we may not need intermediaries in doing business because suppliers and demanders can contact with each other directly in electronic markets. The other thinks that the intermediary function may be vertically decomposed from the company's internal value chain because it can be done more efficiently through networks by external intermediaries. Intelligent software agent is a new emerging technology in the field of computer science. An intelligent agent can support and do actions on behalf of users on computer networks. We think that this technology can be utilized to implement more efficient cybermediaries for electronic commerce. This paper proposes an XML-based framework for financial software agent, which selects financial products best fitted for the customer's needs in electronic market environment.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Simulation Conference
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.306-312
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• 2001

In this research, we are trying to develop a framework to evaluate the prevention program for Tsunami disaster based on the Multi-agent simulation model. Tsunami has arisen by the earthquake. It happened after flew minutes or few hours when it occurred. It is clear that Tsunami will come after earthquake and from seashore. If we prevent the damage by Tsunami, we should make people who is in the seashore and lived near the seaside escape from there. Moreover we must forecast the escape activity from Tsunami. Former research of this field, some researches try to forecast the escape activity as macro level. However, people who escape from Tsunami is differ from their physical ability and ability of information processing. It needs a more accuracy model to forecast the escape activity of them. Furthermore they make a decision step by step using the various information. Therefore escape activity from Tsunami will describe using an agent based model which can only treat the information processing of human being. In this paper, we develop the evacuation model from Tsunami disaster using the Multi agent based model. The purpose of this study is to analyze the human action pattern when Tsunami occurred, and to make an accurately assessment for damages by Tsunami. The Fujisawa city government is planning and operating the various prevention program far Tsunami. However nobody assess it, because they do not have any simulation models for Tsunami disaster. If they want to set an effective prevention program for Tsunami, they should have any kinds of simulation model. The results of this study are 1) To develop the Multi agent based evacuees escape activity model. 2) Assess the damage of Tsunami in Fujisawa-City.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.11B no.2
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• pp.207-212
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• 2004

This paper presents a reinforcement learning framework for stock trading systems. Trading system parameters are optimized by Q-learning algorithm and neural networks are adopted for value approximation. In this framework, cooperative multiple agents are used to efficiently integrate global trend prediction and local trading strategy for obtaining better trading performance. Agents Communicate With Others Sharing training episodes and learned policies, while keeping the overall scheme of conventional Q-learning. Experimental results on KOSPI 200 show that a trading system based on the proposed framework outperforms the market average and makes appreciable profits. Furthermore, in view of risk management, the system is superior to a system trained by supervised learning.

• 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.

• Journal of Integrative Natural Science
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.192-196
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• 2018

The mobile agent paradigm can be exploited in a variety of ways, ranging from low-level system administration tasks to middle ware to user-level applications. Mobile agents can be useful in building middle-ware services such as active mail systems, distributed collaboration systems, etc. An active mail message is a program that interacts with its recipient using a multimedia interface, and adapts the interaction session based on the recipient's responses. The mobile agent paradigm is well suitable to this type of application, since it can carry a sender-defined session protocol along with the multimedia message. Mobile agent communication is possible via method invocation on virtual references. Agents can make synchronous, one-way, or future-reply type invocations. Multicasting is possible, since agents can be aggregated hierarchically into groups. A simple check-pointing facility has also been implemented. Another proposed solution is to use multi agent computer systems to access, filter, evaluate, and integrate this information. We will present the overall architectural framework, our agent design commitments, and agent architecture to enable the above characteristics. Besides, the each information needed a mobile agent system such as text, graphic, image, audio and video etc, constructed a great capacity multimedia database system. However, they have problems in establishing connections over multiple subnetworks, such as no end-to-end connections, transmission delay due to ATM address resolution, no QoS protocols. We propose a new connection management scheme in the thesis to improve the connection management involved of mobile agent systems.

• International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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• v.2 no.3
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• pp.333-342
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• 2004

This paper presents a framework for the self-organization of swarm systems based on coupled nonlinear oscillators (CNOs). In this scheme, multiple agents in a swarm self-organize to flock and arrange themselves as a group using CNOs, which are able to keep a certain distance by the attractive and repulsive forces among different agents. A theoretical approach of flocking behavior by CNOs and a design guideline of CNO parameters are proposed. Finally, the formation scenario for cooperative multi-agent groups is investigated to demonstrate group behaviors such as aggregation, migration, homing and so on. The task for each group in this scenario is to perform a series of processes such as gathering into a whole group or splitting into two groups, and then to return to the base while avoiding collision with agents in different groups and maintaining the formation of each group.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.14 no.8
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• pp.813-817
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• 2008

Intelligent Robots (IR) get data of the current situation from sensors and perform knowledgeable services. Self-reconfiguration of IR is an important factor to change itself without stopping while supporting environment and technology change. In this paper, we propose an agent based self-reconfiguration framework of IR using ESB (Enterprise Service Bus). This framework focuses on dynamic discovery and reconfiguration of service-oriented applications using multi-agent system in intelligent robots. When IR meets an irresolvable situation it downloads a necessary service agent from an external service repository, executes the agent, and resolves the situation. Agent technology provides an intelligent approach for collaborations of IR. The prototype has also been implemented to show the validity of our study.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.28 no.11
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• pp.842-854
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• 2001

Today\`s first generation shopping agent is limited to comparing merchant offerings usually on price instead of their full range of attributes. Even in the full range comparison, there is not a good model which considers the overall features in the negotiation process. Therefore, the negotiation model needs to be extended to include negotiations over the more attributes. In this paper, we propose a negotiation model in the agent-mediated electronic commerce to negotiate over prices, product features, warranties and service policies based on utility theory and simple heuristics. We will describe a prototype agent-mediated electronic commerce framework called Pmart. This framework provides the software reuse and the extensibility based on the object-oriented technology. It is implemented on Windows-based platforms using Java and CORBA for the network transparency and platform independence.