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Simulating UAV Surveillance for Analyzing Impact of Commitments in Multi-Agent Systems 基于多智能体系统承诺影响分析的无人机监控仿真
Pub Date : 2012-01-01 DOI: 10.4018/jats.2012010101
David C. Han, Suzanne Barber
Autonomous agents, by definition, have the freedom to make their own decisions. Rational agents execute actions that are in their "best interests" according to their desires. Action selection is complicated due to uncertainty when operating in a dynamic environment or where other agents can also influence the environment. This paper presents an action selection framework and algorithms that are rational with respect to multiple desires and responsive to changing desires. Coordination is layered on top of this framework by describing and analyzing how commitments affect the agents' desires in their action selection models. Commitments may have a positive or a negative effect on an agent's ability to satisfy its desires. This research uses simulation in the domain of UAV surveillance to experimentally explore the balance between under-commitment and over-commitment.
根据定义,自主代理有自己做决定的自由。理性代理根据他们的愿望执行符合他们“最佳利益”的行为。由于在动态环境中操作或其他代理也可能影响环境时的不确定性,操作选择是复杂的。本文提出了一种行为选择框架和算法,该框架和算法对多种欲望是理性的,并且对欲望的变化是敏感的。通过描述和分析行为选择模型中的承诺如何影响行为主体的愿望,协调在这个框架之上分层。承诺对行为人满足其欲望的能力可能有积极或消极的影响。本研究利用无人机监控领域的仿真,实验探讨了欠承诺和过度承诺之间的平衡。
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引用次数: 5
CAs-Based QoS Scheme for Remote Health Monitoring 基于cas的远程健康监控QoS方案
Pub Date : 2011-12-16 DOI: 10.4018/ijats.2013100103
B. Sathish Babu, K. Bhargavi, Pallapa Venkatarm
Integrated Wireless Networks IWN is an important area of today's research because of its application in comprehensive services like battlefield surveillance, traffic avoidance and control systems, mobile health monitoring, biological detection and agricultural fields, structural health monitoring, Computer-assisted rehabilitation and therapy, tele-robotic surgery, etc. IWNs are employed to collect voluminous data from different types of networks and correlate them to provide critical medical services with high reliability and efficiency. This paper proposes an architecture which uses Cognitive Agents CAs along with Behavior-Observation-Belief BOB model in the area of Remote Health Monitoring RHM, in order to provide better QoS by reducing the latency. The analytical modeling and simulation of the proposed system shows that, there is a considerable reduction in latency compared to the existing Multi-Agent based m-Health Care system.
由于集成无线网络在战场监视、交通回避与控制系统、移动健康监测、生物检测与农业领域、结构健康监测、计算机辅助康复与治疗、远程机器人手术等综合服务领域的应用,集成无线网络是当今研究的一个重要领域。IWNs用于从不同类型的网络中收集大量数据,并将它们关联起来,以高可靠性和高效率提供关键的医疗服务。本文提出了一种基于认知代理ca和行为-观察-信念BOB模型的远程健康监控体系结构,通过减少延迟来提供更好的服务质量。该系统的分析建模和仿真表明,与现有的基于多代理的移动医疗系统相比,延迟大大减少。
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引用次数: 10
The Performance of Grey System Agent and ANN Agent in Predicting Closing Prices for Online Auctions 灰色系统代理和人工神经网络代理在预测网上拍卖收盘价中的性能
Pub Date : 2011-10-01 DOI: 10.4018/IJATS.2011100103
D. Lim, P. Anthony, Chong Mun Ho
The introduction of online auction has resulted in a rich collection of problems and issues especially in the bidding process. During the bidding process, bidders have to monitor multiple auction houses, pick from the many auctions to participate in and make the right bid. If bidders are able to predict the closing price for each auction, then they are able to make a better decision making on the time, place and the amount they can bid for an item. However, predicting closing price for an auction is not easy since it is dependent on many factors such as the behavior of each bidder, the number of the bidders participating in that auction as well as each bidder's reservation price. This paper reports on the development of a predictor agent that utilizes Grey System Theory GM 1, 1 to predict the online auction closing price in order to maximize the bidder's profit. The performance of this agent is compared with an Artificial Neural Network Predictor Agent using Feed-Forward Back-Propagation Prediction Model. The effectiveness of these two agents is evaluated in a simulated auction environment as well as using real eBay auction's data.
网上拍卖的引入带来了大量的问题和问题,特别是在竞标过程中。在竞标过程中,竞标者必须监控多家拍卖行,从众多拍卖中挑选参与的对象,并做出正确的出价。如果竞标者能够预测每次拍卖的收盘价,那么他们就能够在时间、地点和出价金额上做出更好的决定。然而,预测拍卖的收盘价并不容易,因为它取决于许多因素,如每个竞标者的行为,参与拍卖的竞标者的数量以及每个竞标者的保留价格。本文报道了利用灰色系统理论gm1,1来预测网上拍卖收市价的预测代理的开发,以使竞标者的利润最大化。将该智能体的性能与采用前馈反向传播预测模型的人工神经网络预测体进行了比较。在模拟拍卖环境和真实eBay拍卖数据中对这两种代理的有效性进行了评估。
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引用次数: 4
Price Rigidity and Strategic Uncertainty: An Agent-Based Approach 价格刚性与战略不确定性:一个基于主体的方法
Pub Date : 2011-10-01 DOI: 10.4018/jats.2011100104
R. Somogyi, J. Vincze
The phenomenon of infrequent price changes has troubled economists for decades. Intuitively one feels that for most price-setters there exists a range of inaction, i.e., a substantial measure of the states of the world, within which they do not wish to modify prevailing prices. Economists wishing to maintain rationality of price-setters resorted to fixed price adjustment costs as an explanation for price rigidity. This paper proposes an alternative explanation, without recourse to any sort of physical adjustment cost, by putting strategic interaction into the center-stage of the analysis. Price-making is treated as a repeated oligopoly game. The traditional analysis of these games cannot pinpoint any equilibrium as a reasonable "solution" of the strategic situation. Thus, decision-makers have a genuine strategic uncertainty about the strategies of other decision-makers. Hesitation may lead to inaction. To model this situation, the authors follow the style of agent-based models, by modeling firms that change their pricing strategies following an evolutionary algorithm. In addition to reproducing the known negative relationship between price rigidity and the level of general inflation, the model exhibits several features observed in real data. Moreover, most prices fall into the theoretical "range" without explicitly building this property into strategies.
价格变动不频繁的现象困扰了经济学家几十年。人们直观地感觉到,对于大多数价格制定者来说,存在一个不作为的范围,即,在世界状态的很大程度上,他们不希望修改现行价格。经济学家希望维持价格制定者的理性,就用固定价格调整成本来解释价格刚性。本文通过将战略互动置于分析的中心,提出了一种不依赖于任何物理调整成本的替代解释。定价被视为一种重复的寡头垄断游戏。对这些博弈的传统分析无法将任何均衡定位为战略情境的合理“解决方案”。因此,决策者对其他决策者的战略具有真正的战略不确定性。犹豫可能导致无所作为。为了对这种情况进行建模,作者遵循了基于主体的模型的风格,通过对遵循进化算法改变其定价策略的公司进行建模。除了再现已知的价格刚性与一般通货膨胀水平之间的负相关关系外,该模型还展示了在实际数据中观察到的几个特征。此外,大多数价格跌入理论“区间”,而没有明确将这一属性纳入策略。
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引用次数: 5
Initial Formulation of an Optimization Method Based on Stigmergic Construction 基于Stigmergic构造的优化方法的初步表述
Pub Date : 2011-10-01 DOI: 10.4018/jats.2011100102
A. Velivelli, K. Bryden
Sign-based stigmergic methods such as the ant colony optimization algorithm have been used to solve network optimization, scheduling problems, and other optimization problems that can be visualized as directed graphs. However, there has been little research focused on the use of optimization methods based on sematectonic stigmergy, such as coordination through collective construction. This paper develops a novel approach where the process of agent-directed stigmergic construction is introduced as a general optimization tool. The development of this new approach involves adopting previous work on stigmergic construction to a virtual space and applying statistical mechanics-based techniques to data produced during the stigmergic construction process. From this a unique procedure for solving optimization problems using a computational procedure that simulates sematectonic stigmergic processes such as stigmergic construction is proposed.
基于符号的污名化方法,如蚁群优化算法,已被用于解决网络优化、调度问题和其他可以可视化为有向图的优化问题。然而,基于半结构污名的优化方法,如通过集体构建进行协调的研究很少。本文提出了一种新的方法,其中agent-directed stigmergic construction的过程被引入作为一种通用的优化工具。这种新方法的发展涉及采用以前在虚拟空间中对柱头结构构建的工作,并将基于统计力学的技术应用于柱头结构构建过程中产生的数据。在此基础上,提出了一种独特的求解优化问题的程序,该程序可以模拟半结构的柱头能过程,如柱头能构造。
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引用次数: 10
Norms of Behaviour and Their Identification and Verification in Open Multi-Agent Societies 开放多主体社会中的行为规范及其识别与验证
Pub Date : 2011-07-01 DOI: 10.4018/jats.2011070101
Wagdi Alrawagfeh, Edward Brown, M. Mata-Montero
Norms have an obvious role in the coordinating and predicting behaviours in societies of software agents. Most researchers assume that agents already know the norms of their societies beforehand at design time. Others assume that norms are assigned by a leader or a legislator. Some researchers take into account the acquisition of societies' norms through inference. Their works apply to closed multi-agent societies in which the agents have identical or similar internal architecture for representing norms. This paper addresses three things: 1 the idea of a Verification Component that was previously used to verify candidate norms in multi-agent societies, 2 a known modification of the Verification Component that makes it applicable in open multi-agent societies, and 3 a modification of the Verification Component, so that agents can dynamically infer the new emerged and abrogated norms in open multi-agent societies. Using the JADE software framework, we build a restaurant interaction scenario as an example where restaurants usually host heterogeneous agents, and demonstrate how permission and prohibition of behavior can be identified by agents using dynamic norms.
规范在协调和预测软件代理群体的行为方面具有明显的作用。大多数研究人员假设,行为主体在设计时就已经事先知道了他们所在社会的规范。其他人则认为规范是由领导者或立法者指定的。一些研究人员考虑到通过推理获得社会规范。他们的作品适用于封闭的多主体社会,在这种社会中,主体具有相同或相似的内部结构来表示规范。本文解决了三个问题:1 .验证组件的思想,它以前被用于验证多智能体社会中的候选规范;2 .验证组件的已知修改,使其适用于开放的多智能体社会;3 .验证组件的修改,使智能体可以动态地推断开放的多智能体社会中新出现的和废除的规范。使用JADE软件框架,我们构建了一个餐厅交互场景作为示例,其中餐厅通常托管异构代理,并演示了代理如何使用动态规范识别行为的许可和禁止。
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引用次数: 15
Assessing the Impact of Temperature Change on the Effectiveness of Insecticide-Treated Nets 评估温度变化对驱虫蚊帐效果的影响
Pub Date : 2011-07-01 DOI: 10.4018/jats.2011070103
Gregory J. Davis
Malaria is a vector-borne illness affecting millions of lives annually and imposes a heavy financial burden felt worldwide. Moreover, there is growing concern that global climate change, in particular, rising temperature, will increase this burden. As such, policy makers are in need of tools capable of informing them about the potential strengths and weaknesses of intervention and control strategies. A previously developed agent-based model of the Anopheles gambiae mosquito is extended, one of the primary vectors of malaria, to investigate how changes in temperature influence the dynamics of malaria transmission and the effectiveness of a common malaria intervention: insecticide-treated nets ITNs. Results from the simulations suggest two important findings. Consistent with previous studies, an increase in mosquito abundance as temperature increases is observed. However, the increase in mosquito abundance reduces the effectiveness of ITNs at a given coverage level. The implications and limitations of these findings are discussed.
疟疾是一种病媒传播的疾病,每年影响数百万人的生命,给全世界带来沉重的经济负担。此外,人们越来越担心,全球气候变化,特别是气温上升,将增加这一负担。因此,决策者需要能够使他们了解干预和控制战略的潜在优势和弱点的工具。该研究扩展了以前开发的冈比亚按蚊(疟蚊的主要传播媒介之一)基于药剂的模型,以研究温度变化如何影响疟疾传播的动态以及一种常见的疟疾干预措施:经杀虫剂处理的蚊帐(ITNs)的有效性。模拟结果显示了两个重要的发现。与先前的研究一致,观察到蚊子数量随着温度升高而增加。然而,在一定的覆盖水平上,蚊子数量的增加降低了ITNs的有效性。讨论了这些发现的意义和局限性。
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引用次数: 8
A Framework for Modeling Genetically-Aware Mosquito Vectors for Sterile Insect Technique 基于不育昆虫技术的蚊子基因感知载体建模框架
Pub Date : 2011-07-01 DOI: 10.4018/JATS.2011070104
J. E. Gentile, Samuel S. C. Rund
Vector-borne diseases account for 16% of the global infectious disease burden WHO, 2004. Many of these debilitating and sometimes fatal diseases are transmitted between human hosts by mosquitoes. Mosquito-targeted intervention methods have controlled or eliminated mosquito-borne diseases from many regions of the world but regions of constant transmission holoendemic areas still exist Molineaux et al., 1980. To eliminate these illnesses, researchers need to understand how interventions impact a mosquito population so as to identify potential avenues for new intervention techniques. This paper presents a software architecture that allows researchers to simulate transgenic interventions on a mosquito population. The authors present specifications for a model that captures these transgenic aspects and present a software architecture that meets those needs. The authors also provide a proof of concept and some observations about sterile insect technique strategies as simulated by this architecture.
2004年,病媒传播疾病占全球传染病负担的16%。许多这些使人衰弱、有时甚至致命的疾病是通过蚊子在人类宿主之间传播的。以蚊子为目标的干预方法已经控制或消除了世界上许多地区的蚊媒疾病,但仍然存在持续传播的全流行区。Molineaux等,1980。为了消除这些疾病,研究人员需要了解干预措施如何影响蚊子种群,以便确定新的干预技术的潜在途径。本文提出了一个软件架构,允许研究人员模拟转基因干预蚊子种群。作者提出了捕获这些转基因方面的模型的规范,并提出了满足这些需求的软件体系结构。作者还提供了一个概念证明和一些观察到的无菌昆虫技术策略的模拟该架构。
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引用次数: 9
A Spatial Agent-Based Model of Malaria: Model Verification and Effects of Spatial Heterogeneity 基于空间主体的疟疾模型:模型验证及其空间异质性效应
Pub Date : 2011-07-01 DOI: 10.4018/jats.2011070102
S. M. Niaz Arifin, Gregory J. Davis, Ying Zhou
In agent-based modeling ABM, an explicit spatial representation may be required for certain aspects of the system to be modeled realistically. A spatial ABM includes landscapes in which agents seek resources necessary for their survival. The spatial heterogeneity of the underlying landscape plays a crucial role in the resource-seeking process. This study describes a previous agent-based model of malaria, and the modeling of its spatial extension. In both models, all mosquito agents are represented individually. In the new spatial model, the agents also possess explicit spatial information. Within a landscape, adult female mosquito agents search for two types of resources: aquatic habitats AHs and bloodmeal locations BMLs. These resources are specified within different spatial patterns, or landscapes. Model verification between the non-spatial and spatial models by means of docking is examined. Using different landscapes, the authors show that mosquito abundance remains unchanged. With the same overall system capacity, varying the density of resources in a landscape does not affect abundance. When the density of resources is constant, the overall capacity drives the system. For the spatial model, using landscapes with different resource densities of both resource-types, the authors show that spatial heterogeneity influences the mosquito population.
在基于代理的建模ABM中,为了对系统的某些方面进行实际建模,可能需要显式的空间表示。一个空间的ABM包括景观,在这些景观中,主体寻求生存所必需的资源。底层景观的空间异质性在资源寻找过程中起着至关重要的作用。本研究描述了一个基于主体的疟疾模型,并对其空间扩展进行了建模。在这两个模型中,所有的蚊子媒介都是单独表示的。在新的空间模型中,智能体还具有明确的空间信息。在一个景观中,成年雌蚊媒介寻找两种类型的资源:水生栖息地AHs和血食地点bml。这些资源在不同的空间模式或景观中被指定。通过对接,研究了非空间模型与空间模型之间的模型验证。通过使用不同的景观,作者表明蚊子的数量保持不变。在整体系统容量相同的情况下,改变景观中资源的密度不会影响丰度。当资源密度一定时,总体容量驱动系统。在空间模型中,利用两种资源类型不同资源密度的景观,揭示了空间异质性对蚊虫种群数量的影响。
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引用次数: 21
The Effects of Different Interaction Protocols in Agent-Based Simulation of Social Activities 基于agent的社会活动模拟中不同交互协议的影响
Pub Date : 2011-04-01 DOI: 10.4018/jats.2011040102
Nicole Ronald, T. Arentze, H. Timmermans
Decision making in models of activity and travel behaviour is usually individual-based and focuses on outcomes rather than the decision process. Using agent-based modelling techniques and incorporating interaction protocols into the model can assist in modelling decision-making in more detail. This paper describes an agent-based model of social activity generation and scheduling, in which utility-based agents interact with each other to schedule activities. Six different protocols are tested. The authors show that the model outcomes reflect minor changes in the protocol, while changing the order of the protocol leads to significantly different outcomes, hence the protocol plays a large role in the simulation results and should be studied in more detail.
活动和旅行行为模型中的决策通常以个人为基础,关注结果而不是决策过程。使用基于代理的建模技术并将交互协议合并到模型中可以帮助更详细地建模决策。本文描述了一种基于智能体的社会活动生成和调度模型,该模型中基于效用的智能体相互作用来调度活动。测试了六种不同的协议。作者认为,模型结果反映了协议的微小变化,而改变协议的顺序会导致结果的显著不同,因此协议对模拟结果的影响很大,应该进行更详细的研究。
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引用次数: 9
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