Adaptive agents and multiagent systems

Guessoum, Zahia

doi:10.1109/mdso.2004.10

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“…5. Adaptability: This characteristic is defined by the agent's ability to change its state to adapt to the environment (structural adaptation), the ability to evolve and adapt its functionality to the environment at execution time (dynamic adaptation) and the ability to correctly deal with the exceptions produced by the environment to rate the agent's ability to adjust and subsist (exception handlmg) [17]. 6.…”

Section: Agent Attributesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Measuring the Social Ability of Software Agents

Alonso

Fuertes

Martínez

et al. 2008

2008 Sixth International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications

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Section: Agent Attributesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Measuring the Social Ability of Software Agents

Alonso

Fuertes

Martínez

et al. 2008

2008 Sixth International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications

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“…In such models, agents are independent entities (e.g. people, households, businesses) capable of interacting with each other and adapting to changes in their environment [19]. The concept of the economy as a complex system of interacting economic and human agents is well established [20] and has been applied to the emergence of technological innovations across the infrastructure domain, for example water-saving technologies [21] and hybrid electric vehicles [22].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

An agent-based model for energy service companies

Robinson

Varga

Allen

2015

Energy Conversion and Management

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a b s t r a c tThe residential housing sector is a major consumer of energy accounting for approximately one third of carbon emissions in the United Kingdom. Achieving a sustainable, low-carbon infrastructure necessitates a reduced and more efficient use of domestic energy supplies. Energy service companies offer an alternative to traditional providers, which supply a single utility product to satisfy the unconstrained demand of end users, and have been identified as a potentially important actor in sustainable future economies. An agent-based model is developed to examine the potential of energy service companies to contribute to the large scale upgrading of household energy efficiency, which would ultimately lead to a more sustainable and secure energy infrastructure. The migration of households towards energy service companies is described by an attractiveness array, through which potential customers can evaluate the future benefits, in terms of household energy costs, of changing provider. It is shown that self-financing is a limiting factor to the widespread upgrading of residential energy efficiency. Greater reductions in household energy costs could be achieved by committing to longer term contracts, allowing upgrade costs to be distributed over greater time intervals. A steadily increasing cost of future energy usage lends an element of stability to the market, with energy service companies displaying the ability to retain customers on contract expiration. The model highlights how a greater focus on the provision of energy services, as opposed to consumable products, presents a viable approach to reducing future energy costs and usage.

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“…The internet is an example of an interconnected network (internet) that presents a single abstract entity comprised of open informational resources and processing capabilities provided by numerous organisations (Comer 1999 (Comer 1999). Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks, Multi-agent Systems (MAS), and Grid technologies present additional paradigms in which individual organisations provide an abstract large scale interconnected infrastructure for the dissemination of processing and or informational products across heterogeneous nodes (Milojicic et al 2002, Guessoum 2004, IT Professionals' editorial board 2004. Although many organisations might posses extensive network infrastructure a certain portion of that network is made accessible or open, to the outside world through the internet.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%