• 한국정보과학회논문지:소프트웨어및응용
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• 제30권10호
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• pp.955-972
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• 2003

최근 몇 년간 소프트웨어 에이전트가 소프트웨어 공학의 새로운 추상화 단위로서 연구되고 있다. 자율성, 적응성, 협력성 등의 속성을 갖는 에이전트는 특히 분산 시스템, 오픈 시스템, 복잡한(complex) 시스템 등의 영역에서 시스템을 구성하는 새로운 추상화 단위로서 이해되고 있다. 그러나 에이전트에 관한 개념과 특성에 관한 연구가 꾸준히 진행되고 있음에도 불구하고, 에이전트의 다양한 속성과 에이전트 아키텍처에 대한 표준화의 부재로 인해 현재까지 일반화된 에이전트 아키텍처가 제시되지 않고 있다. 에이전트 아키텍처는 시스템의 분석과 설계 시 에이전트 추출의 기준을 제시하고, 전체 소프트웨어 아키텍처를 결정하는 중요한 요소가 된다. 또한 규정된 에이전트 아키텍처는 재사용 가능한 산출물로서 세부 기능을 확장할 수 있는 구조적 틀을 제공하고 개발 공정 전체를 효율적으로 이끌 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 이 같은 연구의 필요성을 바탕으로 객체 지향 설계 방법을 이용하여, 자율성 및 상호작용성을 위한 에이전트 아키텍처 설계 방안을 제시하고자 한다. 자율성과 상호작용성을 에이전트의 일반적인 속성으로 규정하고, 객체 지향 설계 방법을 이용하여 에이전트 아키텍처 설계 방안을 제시한다.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.65-82
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• 2019

Technological innovations over the years have accentuated the workings in corporate- connected organizations and different application platforms. Hence, a unified management information system (MIS) that can utilize the Web and propel programming developments is required. Software agents, the latest developments in computer software technology, can be utilized to rapidly and effortlessly build integrated information systems. Consequently, 59 research papers on the use of software agents in MIS were identified from top 40 MIS journals published between 2007 and 2017. Then, we reviewed and classified all the research papers according to two categories: application fields and application categories. The application fields consisted of eight sub-groups: manufacturing, telecommunication systems, traffic and transportation management, information filtering and gathering, electronic commerce, business process management, entertainment, and medical care; whereas the application categories consisted of three sub-groups: multi-agent systems, personal assistants, and multi-agent simulation. The research papers were further divided into journal and year of publication, and journal and application field. The objective of our research was to understand the trend of the use software agent technology in MIS by examining the published research paper beside to add knowledge and content to the information system academic discipline.

• 보건행정학회지
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.21-37
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• 2001

The purpose of this study is to examine internet agent of IT(Information Technology) in health care industry Since IT is essential for corporate strategy in service management, this section examines IT in health care service, especially from the view of 'Agent Technology' that has been recently issued. Intelligent agent is a new paradigm for developing software applications. More than this, agent-based computing has been hailed as 'the next significant break-through in software development' and 'the new revolution in software'. And health care service is a non-mechanic, human-based service. This paper reviewed what possible suggestions or advices can be made to the health care service. Since many health care services using internet have been attempted over the recent years, this study will hopefully be able to come up with good suggestions from many aspects. Thus, information inequality between producer(physician) and consumer(patient) in health care service will be decreased through the introduction of agent technology.

• 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.

• 한국전자거래학회지
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• 제4권3호
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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.

• 한국지능정보시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지능정보시스템학회 2001년도 The Pacific Aisan Confrence On Intelligent Systems 2001
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• pp.156-163
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• 2001

Business forecasting is vital to the success of business. There has been an increasing demand for building business forecasting software system to assist human being to do forecasting. However, the uncertain and complex nature makes is a challenging work to analyze, design and implement software solutions for business forecasting. Traditional forecasting systems in which their models are trained based on small collection of historical data could not meet such challenges at the information explosion over the Internet. This paper presents an agent oriented business forecasting approach for building intelligent business forecasting software systems with high reusability. Although agents have been applied successfully to many application domains. little work has been reported to use the emerging agent oriented technology of this paper is that it explores how agent can be used to help human to manage various business forecasting processes in the whole business forecasting life cycle.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.1321-1332
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• 2016

Wireless sensor networks (WSN) are self-organized networks that typically consist of thousands of low-cost, low-powered sensor nodes. The reliability and availability of WSNs can be affected by faults, including those from radio interference, battery exhaustion, hardware and software failures, communication link errors, malicious attacks, and so on. Thus, we propose a novel multi-agent fault tolerant system for wireless sensor networks. Since a major requirement of WSNs is to reduce energy consumption, we use multi-agent and mobile agent configurations to manage WSNs that provide energy-efficient services. Mobile agent architecture have inherent advantages in that they provide energy awareness, scalability, reliability, and extensibility. Our multi-agent system consists of a resource manager, a fault tolerance manager and a load balancing manager, and we also propose fault-tolerant protocols that use multi-agent and mobile agent setups.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:소프트웨어및응용
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• 제28권10호
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• pp.732-742
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• 2001

컴퓨터 분야에서 에이전트의 개념의 전자 상거래, 정보 검색과 같은 많은 어플리케이션에 응용되어 중요시되고 있지만, 소프트웨어 테스트 분야에 에이전트의 개념이 적용되는 것은 드문 일이었다. 테스트 에이전트 시트템 (TAS)은 에이전트 개념을 소프트웨어 테스트 분야에 적용한 새로운 도구로, 'User Interface Agent', 'Test Case Selection & Testing Agent'그리고'Regression Test Agent'로 구성되어 있다. 이들 세개의 에이전트들은 각각 지능성을 나타내는 규칙들을 가지고 객체 지향 프로세스를 딸라 자율적으로 테스트를 진행한다. 이 시스템은 두 가지 측면에서 장점을 가지고 있다. 첫째는 자율적으로 테스트 진행시켜 테스터의 간섭을 최소화한다는 것이고 둘째는 지능적으로 중복이 없고 일관성이 있는 효율적인 테스트케이스를 선택하여 테스트 시간을 감소시키면서 오류검출능력은 향상된다는 것이다. 본 논문에서는 사례를 중심으로 실행과정을 기술하여 TAS를 구성하는 세 개의 에이전트들의 자율적인 행동으로 테스트가 진행되는 것을 보여 TAS가 테스트의 간섭을 최소화한다는 것을 보인다. 그리고 4가지유형의 실험을 수행하여 테스트 시간의 단축과 오류 검출 효과향상을 기술한다.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2004년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.1357-1360
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• 2004

In this paper, a prototype of agent-based engineering system is developed based on the AADE (autonomous agent development environment), a FIPA compliant agent platform. By applying several advanced technologies including software agents, Internet/Web, workflow and database, the developed prototype system is able to successfully fulfill our target of integrating personnel, design activities and engineering resources along a predefined engineering design project (workflow). A software prototype is implemented to integrate various engineering software tools including CAD, structural analysis (FEA), dynamic analysis, fatigue analysis. A wheel-axle-assembly (part of a bogie system) is chosen as a test case for the validation of the prototype system.

• 한국콘텐츠학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국콘텐츠학회 2005년도 추계 종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.644-648
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• 2005

에이전트 지향 소프트웨어 공학은 가장 새롭게 대두되고 있는 소프트웨어 공학 분야 중 하나이다. 이 방법은 기존의 개발 방법과 비교하여 많은 장점을 가지고 있다. 그 중 소프트웨어 시스템의 활성 객체(active entity)를 에이전트로 하여금 고급 추상화 단계로 표현할 수 있도록 해준다. 본 논문은 에이전트 지향 소프트웨어에 대한 연구와 산업 현장에서의 적용을 개략적으로 알아보고자 한다.