• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.11 no.9
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• pp.3232-3238
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• 2010

As flexible manufacturing systems (FMSs) are highly automated and required flexibility to satisfy market need, dispatching rules are constrained by specific environments of manufacturing systems such as mechanical failures, absence of employees, and lack of spare parts. In this paper, an ontology-based knowledge approach is proposed to improve efficiency of system through adapting suitable dispatching rules, considering context in a FMS shop floor, which consists multiple manufacturing cells. the multi-agents monitor manufacturing system status and job so that it figures out a dispatching rule considering context. To demonstrate the proposed approach, a proof-of-concept prototype system has been implemented in the $JADE^{TM}$ platform and Protege to make OWL DL ontology.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.83-96
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• 2000

본연구는 웹 상에서 원격 협력 학습을 위한 수준별 협력 학습자 진단 및 스케줄링 에이전트의 설계와 구현에 관한 연구이다. 원격 협력 학습은 동일한 학습내용에 흥미를 갖는 아동이 동시에 학습할 수 있는 환경이 필요하며 학습자의 지식 또한 비슷한 수준이어야 효과적인 협력학습을 할 수 있다. 분산 환경의 이질적인 학습자를 모으기 위해서는 좀 더 자율적이고 지능적인 시스템이 필요하며 학습자에 대한 지식을 표현하는 학습자 모델이 요구된다. 이를 위해 에이전트 시스템이 적절하게 사용될수 있으며 학습자의 수준을 판단하기 위한 진단 에이전트와 협력학습이 가능한 여러명의 학습자들을 알맞은 시간과 서버에 연결하는 스케줄링 에이전트를 웹 기반 지능형 교수 시스템에 접목하였다. 학습자 수준을 진단하는 진단 에이전트는 확신도를 높이기 위해 3-모수 로지스틱 확신공식과 시간 가중치 확신인자 공식을 적용하여 신뢰도를 높였다 또한 협력학습의 스케줄링을 위해 다양한 제약조건들의 최적해를 구하기 위해 제약 만족 문제(CSP)로 스케줄링 에이전트를 모델링하였다 본 연구에서 설계 구현한 협력학습자 진단 및 스케줄링 에이전트의 효율성을 살펴보기 위해 여러명의 학습자를 대상으로 실험하였다. 실험을 통해 각 학습자의 지식 수준 진단과 다수의 학습자가 적절한 협력학습을 하기 위한 스케줄링이 매우 효율적으로 이루어짐을 볼 수 있었다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.8A no.4
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• pp.517-522
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• 2001

The appearance of web technology has accelerated a role of the development of the multimedia technology, the computer communication technology and the multimedia application contents. And serveral researches of WBI (Web-based Instruction) system have combined the technology of the digital library and LOD. Recently WBI (Web-based Instruction) model which is based on web has been proposed in the part of the new activity model of teaching-learning. And the demand of the customized coursewares which is required from the learners is increased, the needs of the efficient and automated education agents in the web-based instruction are recognized. But many education systems that had been studied recently did not service fluently the courses which learners had been wanting and could not provide the way for the learners to study the learning weakness which is observed in the continuous feedback of the course. In this paper we propose "Design of Multi-agent System for Course Scheduling of Learner-oriented using Weakness Analysis Algorithm". First proposed system monitors learner's behaviors constantly, evaluates them, and calculates his accomplishment. From this accomplishment the multi-agent schedules the suitable course for the learner. And the learner achieves a active and complete learning from the repeated and suitable course.le course.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.31-37
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• 2003

With the paradigm shifting from the principal of manufacturing efficiency to business globalism and rapid adaptation to its environments, more and more enterprises are being virtually organized as manufacturing network of different units in web. The formation of these enterprise called as Virtual Enterprise(VE) is becoming a growing trend as enterprises concentrating on core competence and economic benefit. 13us paper proposes multi-agent based task assignment system for VE, which attempts to address the selection of individually managed partners and the task assignment to them A case example is presented to illustrate how the proposed system can assign the task to partners.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.1-15
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• 2001

Recently, Internet based Electronic Commerce is recognized as one of the alternatives for strengthening sales power of small and medium companies. However, small and medium manufacturers can't adjust properly to the new environment because they are in short of money, personnel, and technology. To cope with this problem, this paper deals with the development of virtual manufacturing agent to support sales agent. The sales activity of most of parts manufacturing companies is based on orders of buyers. The process of promotion, receipt and selection of orders of the parts manufacturing is closely coupled with the load status of the production lines. On deciding whether to accept an order or not, as well as negotiating with buyers, sales person needs information such as load and schedule of production lines, manufacturability of the order. Therefore, the functions of virtual manufacturing agents manufacturability analysis, process planning, and scheduling are key features in developing an agent of sales activity for the parts manufacturing business. While most of research on virtual manufacturing system so far is focused on the simulation of each product, this paper deals with the development of agent assisting internet-based product sales by supporting production information promptly. The pilot system of virtual manufacturing agent is implemented using KQML-based agent template and Java-based expert system shell for a small molding company.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.712-717
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• 2011

Recently, diverse schedule management agents are being researched for the efficient schedule management of smart devices users, but they remain at a confirmatory level. In order to efficiently manage user's schedules, execution of planned schedules should be monitored to help users properly execute their schedules, or feedback must be given so that when setting up new schedules, users can plan their schedule according to their schedule establishment patterns. This research proposes a schedule management agent that infers the user's behaviors by using acquired user context, and provides schedule related feedback depending on the user's behavior patterns, when users are executing their schedules or planning new schedules. For this, collected user context information is preprocessed and user's behavior is inferred by Bayesian network. Also, in order to provide feedbacks necessary for confirming the user's schedule execution and new schedule establishment, a context tree pattern matching method for the user's schedule, location and time contexts was applied, then verified with 6 weeks of user simulation in a mobile environment.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.7 no.5
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• pp.467-474
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• 2001

When user wants to animate more than one character, some unexpected motion animation like a collision between characters may occur. Therefore, this problem must be resolved using a proper control mechanism. Therefore, this problem must be resolved using a proper control mechanism. This paper proposes an agent-based system that controls the motion animation of the character for representing animation scenario reflecting user\`s intention. This system provides a method that coordinates a type of motion and avoids collision between characters according to the moving path of a character in three-dimensional space. Agent communicates with others for motion synchronization. Agent is extended into several intelligent agents that coordinate character\`s motion. Agent system enables not only an intended motion animation, but also the scheduling of motion to an entire character animation. It designs automata model using Petri-net analysis tool for the agent\`s interaction as a method that passes the agent\`s information and infers the current state of agents. We implement this agent system to control the motion of character using agent technology and show an example of controlling the motion of human character model to prove the possiblity of motion control.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.7 no.5S
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• pp.1620-1628
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• 2000

Existing internet auction systems have adopted the form which gives a win to the auction bidder who proposes the top bid price for the goods posted on the auction board. But they haven't been satisfying the automatical one-step processing for user's convenience because they must require continuous care of user for bidding and checking as well as neglecting the convenience of user interface while participating in the electronic bidding system. The AuctionBot system of Michigan Univ. is known as the representative internet auction system. It has merit allowing the various kids of bidding. But it does not support automatic a process which can replaces what user has to do using an agent. To improve this kind of user interface, we propose an automatic bidding price strategy algorithm which composes the auction system using agent and design for auto-bidding system using agent so that I can replace user's bidding activity. This mechanism gives an auction system the efficient bidding price strategy.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.193-213
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• 2002

The sales activity of most of small manufacturing companies is based on orders of buyers. The process of promotion, negotiation, receipt and selection of orders of the manufacturers is closely coupled with the load status of the production lines. The decision on whether to accept an order or not, or the selection of optimal order set among excessive orders is entirely dependent on the schedule of production lines. However, in the real world, since the production scheduling activity is mainly performed by human experts, most of small manufacturers are suffer from being unable to meet due dates, lack of rapid decision on the acceptance of new order. Recently, Internet based Electronic Commerce is recognized as one of the alternatives for strengthening sales power of small and medium companies. However, small and medium manufacturers can't adjust properly to the new environment because they are in short of money, personnel, and technology. To cope with this problem, this paper deals with development of part sales agent coupled with virtual manufacturing in Internet environment that consist of selection agent, advertisement agent, selection agent, negotiation agent, and virtual manufacturing system. This paper develops a time-bounded negotiation mechanism for small and medium manufacturers in agent-based automated negotiation between customers and negotiation agents. Furthermore, to select optimal order set maximized profit, we first formulate the order selection problem with mixed integer programming, but the computation time of IP is not acceptable for real world scale problem. To overcome this problem and dynamic nature of virtual manufacturing, we suggest a genetic algorithm approach, which shows a reasonable computation time for real world case and good incremental problem solving capability.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.06d
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• pp.313-315
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• 2006

유비쿼터스 환경 하에서 사용자가 원하는 정보나 서비스를 실시간으로 제공하는 프로그램을 효과적으로 제공하기 위해서는 에이전트와 같이 자율적 수행 능력을 갖는 시스템과 다중 에이전트들간의 실시간 스케줄링 기능을 미들웨어 단계에서 효과적으로 지원하는 기능이 필수적이다. 본 논문에서는 분산객체 미들웨어에 에이전트 서비스 계층을 제공하고, 이러한 계층에 다중 에이전트를 기반으로 한 실시간 스케줄링 서비스를 지원할 수 있는 구조를 제시한다.