• 한국지능정보시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지능정보시스템학회 2003년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.255-263
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• 2003

A multi-agent system designed to represent newly deregulated electricity markets in the USA is aimed at testing the capability of the multi-agent model to replicate the observed price behavior in the wholesale market and developing a smart business intelligence which quickly searches the optimum offer strategy responding to the change in market environments. Simulation results show that the optimum offer strategy is to withhold expensive generating units and submit relatively low offers when demand is low, regardless of firm size; the optimum offer strategy during a period of high demand is either to withhold capacity or speculate for a large firm, while it is to be a price taker a small firm: all in all, the offer pattern observed in the market is close to the optimum strategy. From the firm's perspective, the demand-side participation as well as the intense competition dramatically reduces the chance of high excess profit.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2005년도 ICCAS
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• pp.1938-1943
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• 2005

Network human-robot interface is an important research topic. In home application, users access the robotic system directly via voice, gestures or through the network. Users explore a system by using the services provided by this system and to some extend users are enable to participate in a service as partners. A service may be provided by a robot, a group of robots or robots and other network connected systems (distributed sensors, information systems, etc). All these services are done in the network environment, where uncertainty such as the unstable network connection, the availability of the partners in a service, exists. Moreover, these services are controlled by several users, accessing at different time by different methods. Our research aimed at solving this problem to provide a high available level, flexible coordination system. In this paper, a multi-agent framework is proposed. This framework is validated by using our new concept of slave agents, a responsive multi-agent environment, a virtual directory facilitator (VDF), and a task allocation system using contract net protocol. Our system uses a mixed model between distributed and centralized model. It uses a centralized agent management system (AMS) to control the overall system. However, the partners and users may be distributed agents connected to the center through agent communication or centralized at the AMS container using the slave agents to represent the physical agents. The system is able to determine the task allocation for a group of robot working as a team to provide a service. A number of experiments have been conducted successfully in our lab environment using Issac robot, a PDA for user agent and a wireless network system, operated under our multi agent framework control. The experiments show that this framework works well and provides some advantages to existing systems.

• 조명전기설비학회논문지
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• 제26권10호
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• pp.35-43
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• 2012

In this paper, a development of agent-based IEDs(Intelligent electronic devices) for integration control of building microgrid in smart green building are proposed. To manage and control this complex energy system of smart green buildings, multi-agent system based networks is needed. Thus, several IEDs for utilizing multi-agent system are developed and modified for the their verification of performance as agent modules functions in the integrated experimental equipment. The good performance of these IED agents are verified from experimental results obtained from seamless bi-directional communication by SOAP/XML protocol between PC agent and IED agent.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.181-188
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• 2022

An intelligent distributed multi-agent system (IDMS) using reinforcement learning (RL) is a challenging and intricate problem in which single or multiple agent(s) aim to achieve their specific goals (sub-goal and final goal), where they move their states in a complex and cluttered environment. The environment provided by the IDMS provides a cumulative optimal reward for each action based on the policy of the learning process. Most actions involve interacting with a given IDMS environment; therefore, it can provide the following elements: a starting agent state, multiple obstacles, agent goals, and a cluttered index. The reward in the environment is also reflected by RL-based agents, in which agents can move randomly or intelligently to reach their respective goals, to improve the agent learning performance. We extend different cases of intelligent multi-agent systems from our previous works: (a) a proposed environment-clutter-based-index for agent sub-goal selection and analysis of its effect, and (b) a newly proposed RL reward scheme based on the environmental clutter-index to identify and analyze the prerequisites and conditions for improving the overall system.

• 경영과학
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.39-54
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• 2004

This paper presents a multi-agent system for intelligent recommendation of travel plans to users. The goal of the system is to provide alternative and preferable travel plans to users when the availability of tickets is low such as in vacations, holidays, weekends, or peak seasons. The multiple agents in the system search for available alternatives for a target travel in collaboration with other agents and recommend best alternatives by analyzing them using a multi-criteria decision-making model. A prototype online travel support system was constructed and a simulation experiment was performed for evaluation and comparison with different travel planning strategies.

• 전자공학회논문지CI
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• 제48권2호
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• pp.78-85
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 운전자의 특성, 도로상황, 경로 추천을 담당하는 에이전트와 같은 동적환경정보(DEI:Dynamic Environment Information)를 반영하여 실시간으로 운전자에게 경로를 추천할 수 있는 시스템을 위해 멀티에이전트에 관한 연구를 수행하였다. DEI는 n개의 멀티 에이전트이며 운전자에게 최적화된 경로를 제공할 수 있는 경로추천시스템에 활용되는 환경변수이다. DEI가 반영되는 경로추천 시스템은 멀티 에이전트 연구의 새로운 연구 분야라 할 수 있겠다. 이를 위하여 멀티에이전트 연구의 대표적 실험 환경인 먹이추적문제를 이용하여 새로운 해법을 찾고자 하였다. 본 논문에서는 기존의 먹이추적 실험은 현실성이 결여된 멀티에이전트 연구였기에 기존의 실험환경과 달리 현실세계와 비슷한 실험환경을 제안을 하며 새로운 전략인 Ant-Q 학습을 적용한 알고리즘과 기존의 방향벡터를 활용한 전략과의 비교를 통해 새로운 환경에서의 성능의 향상을 입증할 수 있었다.

• International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.401-412
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• 2008

This paper discusses a design methodology of cooperative path planning for dynamical multi-agent systems with spatial and temporal constraints. The cooperative behavior of the multi-agent systems is specified in terms of the objective function in an optimization formulation. The path of achieving cooperative tasks is then generated by the optimization formulation constructed based on a differential flatness approach. Three scenarios of multi-agent tasking are proposed at the cooperative task planning framework. Given agent dynamics, both spatial and temporal constraints are considered in the path planning. The path planning algorithm first finds trajectory curves in a lower-dimensional space and then parameterizes the curves by a set of B-spline representations. The coefficients of the B-spline curves are further solved by a sequential quadratic programming solver to achieve the optimization objective and satisfy these constraints. Finally, several illustrative examples of cooperative path/task planning are presented.

• 정보처리학회논문지A
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• 제16A권1호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2009

유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅 환경이 추구하는 바는 인텔리전트한 컴퓨팅 환경을 만드는데 있다. 사람이 하나하나 개입하지 않아도 스스로 판단하여 일을 처리할 수 있는 환경을 만드는 것이다. 에이전트 기술은 에이전트 플랫폼이 에이전트들 사이에서 효율성과 안정성을 제공하는 동안 유비쿼터스 시스템의 효과적인 구현을 허용한다. 본 논문에서는 메시지들이 에이전트 플랫폼에서 병합되고 2레벨로 압축되는 계층형P2P 네트워킹 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 상황인식 어플리케이션의 대표적인 메시지의 정적 특성을 이용한다. 실제의 멀티에이전트 시스템의 실험은 기존 방법과 비교하여 응답시간과 처리량의 상당한 향상을 나타낸다.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• 제16권1호
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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.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 1999년도 추계종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.997-1000
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• 1999

It is becoming increasing1y the norm for project teams to be composed of individuals who are geographically distributed but connected by high speed network. In such environments a lot of work related documents are created, so there is real needs for the system that facilitate the effective sharing, maintaining. managing of them. This paper present the system that satisfy this needs, which is known as IDOMA(Intelligent Documents management system based on Multi Agent). IDOMA is the cooperative multi agent based documents management system which has not centralized database.