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The goal of this study is to propose a virtual classroom tool integrated within an e-learning 2.0 architecture supported by a multi agent system with auction-based approach. The proposed architecture and related features aim to provide the teacher / tutor with functionalities for monitoring, planning courses or redesigning them if necessary. The main purpose was to design a Multi Agent System (MAS)...
Aim of this paper is to present an intelligent distributed monitoring system designed to monitor the air quality in specific indoor environments. The proposed architecture is very flexible and the used design principles can be applied to various indoor and outdoor environments. In this work the authors describe the features of this system tuned for monitoring the air quality in a healthcare center...
A hierarchical multi-agent system that exploits one (or more) semantic lexicon for performing semantic markup of Web resources is presented. Semantic lexicon is considered here as a golden ontology defining taxonomical relations among concepts such as hypernymy, meronymy, holonymy and so forth. The system attempts to annotate Web resources according to the available taxonomical relations using simple...
This paper addresses the new emerging approach of Semantic Lexicon-based systems for modeling semantic Web applications. The paper endeavors to shed lights on some misconceptions in the literature about the use of taxonomy and ontology as interchangeable terms, defining a midpoint between the two extremes. Semantic Lexicon is considered as the right match between the semantic layer represented by...
Aim of this paper is to present a decision support system designed to optimize the transport of hazardous materials. Various parameters have to be in-depth analyzed for handling this kind of transport. Traditional systems, based on multi-objective functions optimization, have serious limits regarding the scalability both of the considered parameters and the number of vehicles involved into transport...
This paper reports the features of a web-based multi-agent system (MAS) which aims at supporting electronic data interchange (EDI) among seaport operators and providing interoperability among ports. The MAS architecture here proposed performs process automation, data integration, security and quality of managed information better than a tradional client-server. The case study is represented by the...
An information system supporting environmental applications must be reliable, scalable and able to acquire and integrate data from a lot of monitoring stations distributed in different places. This paper proposes a system integrating the data acquired by a distributed network of sensors for air quality monitoring. The monitoring system is based on a well-tested Multi Agent System architecture based...
Artificial intelligence has devised solutions for a wide class of scheduling problems that can be applied also to power management and in general to building-automation. This paper presents one of these methods, based on the multi agent system (MAS) paradigm for a demand-side management system.
This work proposes a model of an intelligent short term demand side management system (DSM) based on a distributed measurement and management data system. The system is designed to avoid peaks of power request greater than a given threshold and to give maximum comfort to user. The DSM problem is modeled as a multi objectives scheduling problem and it is solved using a metaheuristic approach based...
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