• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2003.10b
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• pp.253-255
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• 2003

We address an integrated multimedia framework based on a software agent platform for context-aware multimedia computing. We adopt the FIPA (Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents) platform which provides agent communications and management mechanisms. In order to express context information, we use MPEG-21 metadata for describing user characteristics and usage environment. We encapsulate such context information as a FIPA message to be delivered between agents. Based on context information, appropriate multimedia content delivery becomes possible. We present our system implementation with a use case scenario and show that our proposed framework is effective for context-aware multimedia computing so that personalization of multimedia consumption can be possible.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.3 no.3
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• pp.125-134
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• 2014

This paper proposes a multi-agent message transport architecture to support application areas which need fast message communications for close collaboration among agents. In the FIPA(Foundation of Intelligent Physical Agents) agent platform, all message transfer services among agents are in charge of a conceptual entity named ACC(Agent Communication Channel). In our multi-agent message transport architecture, the ACC is represented as a set of system agents named MTSA(Message Transfer Service Agent). The MTSA enables close collaboration among agents by supporting asynchronous communication, by using Reactor pattern to handle agent input messages efficiently, and by selecting optimal message transfer protocols according to the relative positional relationships of sender agents and receiver agents. The multi-agent framework SMAF(Small Multi-Agent Framework), which is implemented on the proposed multi-agent message transport architecture, shows better performance on message transfer among agents than JADE(Java Agent Development Environment) which is a well-known FIPA-compliant multi-agent framework. The faster the speed of message transfer of a multi-agent architecture becomes, the wider application areas the architecture can support.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.9D no.1
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• pp.167-172
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• 2002

Recently, some of people are keep in research and development of the further more efficient and convenient auction systems using intelligent software agents in electronic commerce. The purpose of this thesis is that a simple auction system has web bulletin boards, is aided by intelligent agent, and generates pertinent auction duration time and starting price for auction goods of auctioneer into a auction system, then the auctioneer gets the highest margin. The seller who want to sell goods, is using internet sends mail that has information for goods to agent of internet auction system. The agent undertake filtering process for already learned information about similar goods. And it calculate duration time and start price from stored bidding history database. In this thesis we propose a mailing agent system pushing information in internet auction that enables to aid decision for auctioneer about the starting time and price which delivers the highest margin.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.19 no.12
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• pp.11-19
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• 2014

In this paper, we design an intelligent agent system with the data mining module and information fusion module as the core components of the system and investigate the possibility for the medical expert system. In the data mining module, fuzzy neural network, OFUN-NET analyzes multi-view data and produces fuzzy cluster knowledge base. In the information fusion module and application module, they serve the diagnosis result with possibility degree and useful information for diagnosis, such as uncertainty decision status or detection of asymmetry. We also present the experiment results on the BI-RADS-based feature data set selected form DDSM benchmark database. They show higher classification accuracy than conventional methods and the feasibility of the system as a computer aided diagnosis system.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.106-108
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• 2003

최근 들어 인터넷의 급속한 발전으로 사용자가 처리해야할 점보의 양이 급속히 늘어나게 됨으로써 사람이 혼자만의 힘으로 이 많은 정보를 처리하는 것이 하나의 고단한 작업이 되었고, 이 작업을 돕기 위한 소프트웨어 에이전트(software agent) 의 필요성이 대두되었다. 본 논문에서는 구현한 소프트웨어 에이전트가 사용자의 업무보조 (personal assistant) 라는 자신의 임무를 수행하기 위하여 온톨로지(ontology)를 기반으로 사용자의 선호도(preference) 와 의사결정 패턴을 학습하여 사용자 프로파일(user Profile) 을 작성한다. 학습한 프로파일을 바탕으로 사용자의 선호도와 일치하는 제품을 추천하는 지능형 에이전트를 제안하고. 실질적인 실험을 통해 학습된 사용자의 성향을 분석한다.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.11-26
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• 2004

Software for analyzing documents on the net to detect specific categories of occurrences is in great demand. In the current world where detecting terrorist threats is critical there is a great need for such systems. One of the critical application areas of such software is the automatic detection of a national infrastructure emergency. In this research an agent-based generic architecture for emergency warning systems is proposed and implemented. This system, called the National Infrastructure Emergency Warning System (NIEWS), is designed to analyze given documents, to detect threats, and to report possible threats with the necessary information to the appropriate users autonomously. In addition, a systematic analysis framework to detect emergencies on the subject of defensive information warfare is designated and implemented through a knowledge base. The developed system along with the knowledge base is implemented and successfully deployed to Strategic Crisis Exercise (SCE) at the United State Army War College (USAWC), saving a good amount of money by replacing human SMEs (subject matter experts) in the SCE.

• KIISE Transactions on Computing Practices
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.290-298
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• 2015

This paper suggests a multi-agent message transport architecture based on the message-oriented middleware ZeroMQ. Compared with the other middlewares such as CORBA, Ice, and Thrift, ZeroMQ receives a good score in the evaluation of performance, QoS (Quality of Service), patterns, user friendliness, and resources. The suggested message transfer architecture borrowed many basic concepts like agent platform, AMS (Agent Management System), and MTS (Message Transfer System) from FIPA (Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents) standard multi-agent specifications, and the architecture inherited the strength of the architecture from the multi-agent framework SMAF (Smart Multi-Agent Framework). The architecture suggested in this paper is a novel peer-to-peer architecture which is not known to the ZeroMQ community. In the suggested architecture, every MTS agent uses only one ZeroMQ router socket to support peer-to-peer communication among MTS agents. The suggested architecture can support closely collaborating software areas such as intelligent robots as well as the traditional application areas of multi-agent architecture. The suggested architecture has interoperability and scalability with the ZeroMQ devices and patterns.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.7 no.5S
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• pp.1696-1707
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• 2000

With the proliferation of electronic commerce (EC), the product items which are transacted and the user classes who utilize the EC are spread rapidly. Many users have to expend time and effort in searching of products an or the shopping malls which deal with the products. For his reason, the intelligent retrieval of both malls and products based on an intelligent software agent has been raised as a hot issue. In this paper we have constructed an ontology server that is an essential constituent for agent-based intelligent EC. And also we have designed and implemented a use adapted personalized product search function based on the ontology that are registered in the server.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2005.10a
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• pp.980-983
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• 2005

An agent Is an autonomous process that recognizes external environment, exchanges knowledge with external machines and performs an autonomous decision-making function in order to achieve common goals. The techniques fur tackling complexity in software need to be introduced. That is decomposition, abstraction and organization. Agent-oriented model ing has the merits of decomposition. In decomposition, each autonomous unit may have a control thread. Thread is single sequential flow in program. The use of thread in agent modeling has an important meaning in the performance of CPU and the relation of autonomous units.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.91-103
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• 2004

Multi-agent systems for semantic web applications require efficient implementation of agent architectures without sacrificing the flexibility and the level of abstraction that agent architectures provide. In this paper, we present an agent system, called VivAce, which is implemented in Java to achieve both high efficiency and the level of abstraction provided by the BDI agent architecture. VivAce (Vivid Agent Computing Environment) has the characteristics of a vivid agent through the BDI agent model. A vivid agent is a software-controlled system whose state comprises the mental components of knowledge, perceptions, tasks, and intentions, and whose behavior is represented by means of action and reaction rules. We first identify the requirements for multi-agent systems and then present the relevant features of VivAce and experimental results.