Towards a Natural Agent Paradigm Development Methodology

Alonso, Fernando; Frutos, Sonia; Martínez, Loïc; Montes, César

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“…In [13], Mao and Yu state that in order to develop agent-oriented applications successfully, methods should be designed to support system modeling in a robust, reliable and repeatable way. And Alonso et al [14] claim that it is necessary to develop methods suited to the development process of agent-oriented systems.…”

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SYSTEMATIC CONSTRUCTION OF i* STRATEGIC DEPENDENCY MODELS FOR SOCIO-TECHNICAL SYSTEMS

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Int. J. Soft. Eng. Knowl. Eng.

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Goal-and agent-oriented models have become a consolidated type of artifact in various software and knowledge engineering activities. Several languages exist for representing such type of models but there is a lack of associated methodologies for guiding their construction up to the necessary level of detail. In this paper we present RiSD, a method for building Strategic Dependency (SD) models in the i * notation. RiSD is defined in a prescriptive way to reduce uncertainness when constructing the model. RiSD tackles three fundamental issues: (1) it tends to reduce the average size of the resulting models; (2) it defines some traceability relationships among model elements; (3) it provides some lexical and syntactical conventions. As a result, we may say that RiSD supports the construction process of goal-and agent-oriented models whilst increasing their understanding.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

SYSTEMATIC CONSTRUCTION OF i* STRATEGIC DEPENDENCY MODELS FOR SOCIO-TECHNICAL SYSTEMS

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Grau

Mayol

et al. 2007

Int. J. Soft. Eng. Knowl. Eng.

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“…The whole classification is shown in The first classifications identified different methodologies intended to design agent-oriented systems [Wooldridge & Ciancarini 2000], which inherited the ideas of previous methodologies based on object-oriented systems. Then, new ideas were added to that domain providing more flexible and open approaches, adopting the ideas of knowledge engineering and cognitive acquisition of knowledge [Alonso et al 2004]. Recently, several authors have identified another branch that exploits the idea of agents as collections of entities that play a social role , Horling & Lesser 2005.…”

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“…Several researchers have tried to analyse and compare different AOSE approaches [Alonso et al 2004, Cuesta et al 2004, Iglesias et al 2000, Sturm & Shehory 2004b, Tran et al 2003, Wooldridge & Ciancarini 2000. Basically, each proposal defines a framework with several properties that are studied and evaluated for all cases.…”

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Agent-based management of clinical guidelines

Isern Alarcón

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Les guies de pràctica clínica (GPC) contenen un conjunt d'accions i dades que ajuden a un metge a prendre decisions sobre el diagnòstic, tractament o qualsevol altre procediment a un pacient i sobre una determinada malaltia. És conegut que l'adopció d'aquestes guies en la vida diària pot millorar l'assistència mèdica als pacients, pel fet que s'estandarditzen les pràctiques. Sistemes computeritzats que utilitzen GPC poden constituir part de sistemes d'ajut a la presa de decisions més complexos amb la finalitat de proporcionar el coneixement adequat a la persona adequada, en un format correcte i en el moment precís. L'automatització de l'execució de les GPC és el primer pas per la seva implantació en els centres mèdics. Per aconseguir aquesta implantació final, hi ha diferents passos que cal solucionar com per exemple, l'adquisició i representació de les GPC, la seva verificació formal, i finalment la seva execució. Aquesta Tesi està dirigida en l'execució de GPC i proposa la implementació d'un sistema multi-agent. En aquest sistema els diferents actors dels centres mèdics coordinen les seves activitats seguint un pla global determinat per una GPC. Un dels principals problemes de qualsevol sistema que treballa en l'àmbit mèdic és el tractament del coneixement. En aquest cas s'han hagut de tractar termes mèdics i organitzatius, que s'ha resolt amb la implementació de diferents ontologies. La separació de la representació del coneixement del seu ús és intencionada i permet que el sistema d'execució de GPC sigui fàcilment adaptable a les circumstàncies concretes dels centres, on varien el personal i els recursos disponibles. En paral·lel a l'execució de GPC, el sistema proposat manega preferències del pacient per tal d'implementar serveis adaptats al pacient. En aquesta àrea concretament, a) s'han definit un conjunt de criteris, b) aquesta informació forma part del perfil de l'usuari i serveix per ordenar les propostes que el sistema li proposa, i c) un algoritme no supervisat d'aprenentatge permet adaptar les preferències del pacient segons triï. Finalment, algunes idees d'aquesta Tesi actualment s'estan aplicant en dos projectes de recerca. Per una banda, l'execució distribuïda de GPC, i per altra banda, la representació del coneixement mèdic i organitzatiu utilitzant ontologies. Clinical guidelines (CGs) contain a set of directions or principles to assist the health care practitioner with patient care decisions about appropriate diagnostic, therapeutic, or other clinical procedures for specific clinical circumstances. It is widely accepted that the adoption of guideline-execution engines in daily practice would improve the patient care, by standardising the care procedures. Guideline-based systems can constitute part of a knowledge-based decision support system in order to deliver the right knowledge to the right people in the right form at the right time. The automation of the guideline execution process is a basic step towards its widespread use in medical centres. To achieve this general goal, different topics should be tackled, such as the acquisition of clinical guidelines, its formal verification, and finally its execution. This dissertation focuses on the execution of CGs and proposes the implementation of an agent-based platform in which the actors involved in health care coordinate their activities to perform the complex task of guideline enactment. The management of medical and organizational knowledge, and the formal representation of the CGs, are two knowledge-related topics addressed in this dissertation and tackled through the design of several application ontologies. The separation of the knowledge from its use is fully intentioned, and allows the CG execution engine to be easily customisable to different medical centres with varying personnel and resources. In parallel with the execution of CGs, the system handles citizen's preferences and uses them to implement patient-centred services. With respect this issue, the following tasks have been developed: a) definition of the user's criteria, b) use of the patient's profile to rank the alternatives presented to him, c) implementation of an unsupervised learning method to adapt dynamically and automatically the user's profile. Finally, several ideas of this dissertation are being directly applied in two ongoing funded research projects, including the agent-based execution of CGs and the ontological management of medical and organizational knowledge.

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Agent-based enterprise information architecture with a 3PLcase study

HaoYing

Huang

2008

2008 7th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation

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Towards a Natural Agent Paradigm Development Methodology

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SYSTEMATIC CONSTRUCTION OF i* STRATEGIC DEPENDENCY MODELS FOR SOCIO-TECHNICAL SYSTEMS

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Agent-based management of clinical guidelines

Agent-based enterprise information architecture with a 3PLcase study

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