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Agent-based Teamwork & Collaborative Support

Agent-based Teamwork & Collaborative Support . APS group University of Twente Dimitri Konstantas Lora Aroyo Renata Guizzardi. Overview. APS / UT introduction Research Collaborations WP5 - Industrial and overall assessment of Agent Academy Overall description Tasks Deliverables

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Agent-based Teamwork & Collaborative Support

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  1. Agent-based Teamwork & Collaborative Support APS group University of Twente Dimitri Konstantas Lora Aroyo Renata Guizzardi

  2. Overview • APS / UT introduction • Research • Collaborations • WP5 - Industrial and overall assessment of Agent Academy • Overall description • Tasks • Deliverables • Participation in other WPs: • WP1 – specification and design of the Agent Academy conceptual model (D 1.1 and D 1.2) • WP2 – Agent Use Repository (D 2.1) • WP 6 – Dissemination and industrial implementation plan

  3. APS/UT research • Application Protocol Systems (APS) group • Research: telematics applications and services with special emphasis in multimedia protocols for mobile wireless systems • Objectives: support of e-health and m-health, security of telematics applications and internet streaming applications for entertainment interactive TV. • Directions: • application layer level protocols • application of mobile agent technology

  4. APS/UT collaboration • Participation and research contributions: • EU initiative for wireless communications (Wireless World Research Forum - WWRF) • Contributions to "Book of Visions 2001" in the area of mobile health systems and applications using BAN (Body Area networks) and PAN (Personal Area Networks) networks • chairs the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) • participates in Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) • Collaboration: • Center of Telematics and Information Technologies • local hospitals • network operators • small companies, specialized in portable health sensors'

  5. WP5: Industrial and overall assessment of Agent Academy • Objective: demonstrate the use of AA in industrial applications and assess its benefits • Approach: • three test case scenarios deployment in real SME environment • application of the AA platform and measure the impact • Results: • M-4 milestone: Industrial evaluation of AA • overall assessment and evaluation of AA framework, which will determine the overall degree of success for the project

  6. WP5: Targets • ensure the beneficial impact of the AA framework on SME applications • three industrial consortium partners will perform the test case implementation • the three test use scenarios concern the following application domains: • Production planning • Real-time systems management • Web-based applications. • overall evaluation of the test case suite, which will enable the final project assessment

  7. WP5: Emphasis • Further refinement and calibration of the following criteria: • Benefits with respect to: • Efficiency (savings in resources, time or money) • Effectiveness (ability to do things better) • Added value (allowing new things to be done) • Configurability - ability of an AA-based functionality to be configured before use to suit a particular industrial user (intra- or inter-enterprise service provider and the end-user may configure services) • Controllability - how controllable an AA-based service is by an industrial user after it has been configured and set up • Re-configurability - ability of an existing AA-based service to be enhanced by an (intra- or inter-enterprise) service provider to include new functionality required • Usability - effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction of the end users when achieve specified goals in a particular environment

  8. WP5: Tasks & Deliverables • Tasks: • Task 5.1: Scenario 1 – Production planning • Task 5.2: Scenario 2 – Real Time Systems management • Task 5.3: Scenario 3 – Web-based Applications • Task 5.4: Overall evaluation of test case suite • Task 5.5: Overall assessment of Agent Academy • Deliverables: • D 5.1: Industrial implementation - Test case suite in M0+18 • D 5.2: Evaluation of industrial test case implementation in M0+22 • D 5.3: Integration of AA framework, overall assessment and evaluation of AA results in M0+24

  9. WP5 – Task 5.1 • Scenario 1 – Production planning • Objective: improve an in-house Production Planning system using the AA framework • Prerequisites & links to other WPs: assessment criteria based on the requirement analysis performed in task 1.2 and on the initial specifications of test case scenario defined in task 1.6 of WP1 • Implementation of the scenario:Unisoft

  10. WP5 – Task 5.2 • Scenario 2 – Real Time Systems management • Objective:management of real-time Internet applications, based on real time ‘push technology’ that detects changes in the server and sends the updated information to clients in an unattended way • Prerequisites & links to other WPs: use activities specified in task 1.6 of WP1 • Implementation of the scenario:IDI EIKON

  11. WP5 – Task 5.3 • Scenario 3 – Web-based Applications • Objective: using AA platform to develop web-based applications that follow a ‘pull technology’ model • Prerequisites & links to other WPs: general description and testing plan defined in task 1.6 of WP1 • Implementation of the scenario:Amadee

  12. WP5 – Task 5.4 • Overall evaluation of test case suite • Objective:assessment of AA platform as a software product by evaluating the results in the three test case activities carried out in tasks 5.1 through 5.3. • Prerequisites & links to other WPs: defined in tasks 1.2 and 1.6 of WP1. • Implementation of the scenario:IDI EIKON and M-BIS • Results: results of the evaluation will be used for the overall assessment of the Agent Academy project in task 5.5

  13. WP5 – Task 5.5 • Overall assessment of Agent Academy • Objective: evaluation of AA framework in its application domain, through the use of three test case activities • Prerequisites & links to other WPs: test case activities, developed in tasks 5.1 through 5.3 and evaluated in task 5.4 • Implementation of the scenario:all partners,managed by UT and CERTH

  14. WP5 – Deliverables • D 5.1: Industrial implementation - Test case suite in M0+18 • D 5.2: Evaluation of industrial test case implementation in M0+22 • D 5.3: Integration of AA framework, overall assessment and evaluation of AA results in M0+24

  15. Contribution of the APS/UT to AA • General IA and AI expertise – architectures, communication languages, development platforms, standards • General IR, information management and modeling expertise – metadata, XML, UML, conceptual structures, adaptive IR • Web application scenario – requirements and needs analysis, task definitions, activities scenarios with respect to training, teamwork, learning support, system monitoring, information management and security

  16. Contribution of the APS/UT to AA • Task 1.1: • State-of-the-Art on technical standards concerning intelligent and mobile agents (platforms, specs, standards, protocols, formats, architectures) • documentation plan for the creation of the required technical content on which the project will be built • taxonomy of standards to facilitate the final decision on specific standards and platforms, carried out in tasks 1.3 and 1.4 • Task 1.3: • issues about agent interoperability, cooperation and primitive specification compliance, which have been addressed by many standardization efforts • evaluation of the results produced by task 1.1 in order to provide knowledge on existing standardization efforts • decision on specific standards to be adopted • Task 1.5: • design of the Agent Training Module and Agent Use Repository • Task 1.6: • design of the the web-application test scenario • D 1.1 and D 1.2

  17. Contribution of the APS/UT to AA • Task 2.1 (D 2.1): • examination of methods for agent interoperability (based on the standards of tasks 1.1 and 1.3) and develop a documentation report on agent interoperability methodologies • facilitate agent-to-agent and agent-to-legacy systems interaction • agent communication - different kinds of Agent Communication Languages (ACLs), ontology-based communication, and agent interaction protocols • Task 5.3: • definition of a web application scenario (e-health, collaboration, training) • Task 5.5 (D 5.3): • evaluation and assessment of the web application scenario • Task 6.2: • Journal and Conference paper preparation– AI, Knowledge and Information management, Intelligent agents • Standardization committees and workshops (ARIADNE, ISO JTC 1/SC 32, 6 Data management and interchange, Telecommunications, FIPA, IEEE, OMG, OAA)

  18. APS/UT – issues of interest • agents and mobile devices and services • agents for training users to perform activities within a specific context • agents to support teamwork activities • agents as personal assistants • agents for monitoring activities (sensing environment) • common information model for agents (CWM) • metadata and information retrieval issues • devises and information interoperability • agent learning/adaptable mechanisms • internal agent architecture • general support system architecture • agent communication framework

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