• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.123-144
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• 2014

Wireless sensor networks are generally deployed for specific applications to accomplish certain objectives over a period of time. To fulfill these objectives, it is crucial that the sensor network continues to function for a long time, even if some of its nodes become faulty. Energy efficiency and fault tolerance are undoubtedly the most crucial requirements for the design of an information extraction protocol for any sensor network application. However, most existing software agent based information extraction protocols are incapable of satisfying these requirements because of static agent itineraries and large agent sizes. This paper proposes an Information Extraction protocol based on Multiple software Agents with Dynamic Itineraries (IEMADI), where multiple software agents are dispatched in parallel to perform tasks based on the query assigned to them. IEMADI decides the itinerary for an agent dynamically at each hop using local information. Through mathematical analysis and simulation, we compare the performance of IEMADI with a well known static itinerary based protocol with respect to energy consumption and response time. The results show that IEMADI provides better performance than the static itinerary based protocols.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:소프트웨어및응용
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• 제32권11호
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• pp.1084-1098
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 동적 환경에 적합한 자율 이동 에이전트의 이주 기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 이주 기법은 네트워크 및 시스템의 상태 변화에 적절하게 대응할 수 있도록 에이전트의 이주 경로를 동적으로 생성한다. 에이전트의 이주 과정에서 전송해야 할 데이타량 및 에이전트의 인스턴스를 생성하기 위한 시간을 감소시키기 위해 다음에 이동할 목적지에 프리패칭 메시지를 전달하여 필요한 데이타를 미리 수신할 수 있도록 한다. 제안하는 이동 기법은 에이전트의 이주 과정에서 발생한 결함에 대처할 수 있도록 체크포인트 기법을 이용하여 에이전트의 상태를 유지하고 복구할 수 있도록 하는 기능을 제공한다. 제안하는 이주 기법의 우수성을 입증하기 위해 다양한 실험을 통해 기존 방법의 비교 분석을 수행한다.

• 한국지능정보시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지능정보시스템학회 2001년도 The Pacific Aisan Confrence On Intelligent Systems 2001
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• pp.50-58
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• 2001

Modern day networks are increasingly moving towards peer to peer architecture where routing tasks will not be limited to some dedicated routers, but instead all computers in a network will take part in some routing task. Since there are no specialized routers, each node performs some routing tasks and information passes from one neighbouring node to another, not in the form of dumb data, but as intelligent virtual agents or active code that performs some tasks by executing at intermediate nodes in its itinerary. The mobile agents can run, and they are free to d other tasks as the agent will take care of the routing tasks. The mobile agents because of their inherent 'intelligence'are better able to execute complex routing tasks and handle unexpected situations as compared to traditional routing techniques. In a modern day dynamic network users get connected frequently, change neighbours and disconnect at a rapid pace. There can be unexpected link failure as well. The mobile agent based routing system should be able to react to these situations in a fact and efficient manner so that information regarding change in topology propagates quickly and at the same time the network should not get burdened with traffic. We intend to build such a system.

• 정보처리학회논문지D
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• 제8D권4호
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• pp.439-450
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• 2001

Mobile agent is one of the promising ways of overcoming network load and latency. It is also a new software paradigm including those concepts of client/server, applet/servelet, and code-on-demand. In this paper, a new mobile agent concept with flexible replay scheme is proposed, which can deal with embarrassing situation when replying results should be accomplished in various distributed applications. For example, they are 1) a burden of bulky result, 2) a need of different replay scheme dependent on work type, 3) connection failure to the target node, and 4) a need of fast migration to next node to keep the itinerary. Regarding the source node, there may be another situation that it wants to be aware of whether its wi가 is completed or not. Three kinds of reply schemes are proposed for dealing flexibly with such situations. They are based on priority reply list where nodes to be replied are stored according to their priorities. An experimental supply chain management model using the proposed reply schemes is designed and implemented. It is one of good distributed applications appropriate for our reply schemes, because it requires different reply schemes according to work types and it is important to gather required information in time.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.123-131
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• 2020

After observing that most tourists plan to complete their visits to multiple cultural heritage sites within one day, we surmised that for many museum visitors, the foremost thought is with regard to the amount of time is to be spent at each location and how they can maximize their enjoyment at a site while still balancing their travel itinerary? Recommendation systems in e-commerce are built on knowledge about the users' previous purchasing history; recommendation systems for museums, on the other hand, do not have an equivalent data source available. Recent solutions have incorporated advanced technologies such as algorithms that rely on social filtering, which builds recommendations from the nearest identified similar user. Our paper proposes a different approach, and involves providing dynamic recommendations that deploy social filtering as well as content-based filtering using term frequency-inverse document frequency. The main challenge is to overcome a cold start, whereby no information is available on new users entering the system, and thus there is no strong background information for generating the recommendation. In these cases, our solution deploys statistical methods to create a recommendation, which can then be used to gather data for future iterations. We are currently running a pilot test at Chao Samphraya national museum and have received positive feedback to date on the implementation.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.137-149
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• 2004

네트워크의 발달과 다양한 서비스의 요구에 따라 새로운 소프트웨어의 패러다임에 대한 요구가 증가되고 있다. 이와 함께 이동 에이전트에 대한 많은 연구가 진행 중이다. 이동 에이전트의 수행에 있어 이주비용은 이동 에이전트의 성능에 많은 영향을 미친다. 본 논문에서 이동에이전트의 이주비용을 최적화하기 위한 기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 이주기법의 특징은 다음과 같다. 첫째, 네트워크 상태 및 플랫폼 상태변화에 적절하게 대응할 수 있는 동적 경로를 생성하여 에이전트 수행 효율을 높인다. 둘째, 수행할 코드를 프리패칭하여 이동 데이터 양을 줄이고, 필요한 에이전트를 미리 인스턴스시켜 수행 시간을 단축한다. 셋째, 체크포인트 기법을 사용하여 에이전트 수행 중에 에러가 발생할지라도 에이전트는 재 수행을 하지 않고 에러 이전의 상태로 복구하는 방법을 사용하여 수행 효율을 높인다. 또한, 시뮬레이션을 통해 기존방법과 제안하는 방법을 비교 평가한다. 시뮬레이션 결과분석을 통해 이주관점에서 제안한 방법들이 기존방법들에 비해 성능이 매우 향상됨을 보인다.