A Software Agent Framework To Overcome Malicious Host Threats And Uncontrolled Agent Clones

Nowadays distance education helps when no other traditional possibility is allowed. But is it a good alternative to replace entirely the traditional education? Could it provide at least the same level of quality or it brings problems that we are not prepared for? The paper presents an observation of a problem with keeping students focused on their education – constant dropping of engagement and unintentional loss of attention during situation of distance learning. Appling measures to keep students’ attraction led to the need of some aspects’ automation – a model for a new intelligent assistant, software agent, was developed, along with the current ones in the existing system. This assistant will create profiles of students, helping with personalized tracking of each student’s progress in specific subject, recommending topics to improve knowledge and fill knowledge gaps. It will “live” in the extension of an existing system and cooperate with other agents to accomplish its goals, proactively assisting in students’ learning aspects, as well as teachers’ efforts to prepare better and more suitable educational materials.

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A Trustable Software Agent Framework for the Examination Paper Preparation and Moderation Process (EPMP)

International Journal of Computer Applications ◽

10.5120/14525-2917 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 83 (15) ◽

pp. 23-30

Author(s):

Abdulrazaq NathimAbdulrazaq ◽

Mohd Sharifuddin Ahmad ◽

Mohd Zaliman M. Yusoff ◽

Moamin A. Mahmoud

Keyword(s):

Software Agent ◽

Examination Paper ◽

Moderation Process

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Software agent-mediated confidential information gathering system

Proceedings Seventh International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (Cat. No.PR00568) ◽

10.1109/icpads.2000.857738 ◽

2002 ◽

Author(s):

Xun Yi ◽

Chee Kheong Siew

Keyword(s):

Software Agent ◽

Information Gathering ◽

Confidential Information

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AN INTEGRATED FRAMEWORK UTILISING SOFTWARE AGENT REASONING AND ONTOLOGY MODELS FOR SENSOR BASED BUILDING MONITORING

Journal of Civil Engineering and Management ◽

10.3846/13923730.2014.890645 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 21 (3) ◽

pp. 356-375 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Michael Dibley ◽

Haijiang Li ◽

Yacine Rezgui ◽

John Miles

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Sensor Network ◽

Explicit Knowledge ◽

Knowledge Bases ◽

Software Agent ◽

Facility Management ◽

Good Opportunity ◽

Integrated Framework ◽

Intelligent Software ◽

Building Monitoring

Smart building monitoring demands a new software infrastructure that can elaborate building domain knowledge in order to provide advanced and intelligent functionalities. Conventional facility management (FM) software tools lack semantically rich components, and that limits the capability of supporting software for automatic information sharing, resource negotiation and to assist in timely decision making. Recent hardware innovation on compact ZigBee sensor devices, software developments on ontology and intelligent software agent paradigms provide a good opportunity to develop tools that can further improve current FM practices. This paper introduces an integrated framework which includes a ZigBee based sensor network and underlying multi-agent software (MAS) components. Several different types of sensors were integrated with the ZigBee host devices to produce compact multi-functional sensor units. The MAS framework incorporates the belief-desire-intention (BDI) abstraction with ontology support (provided via explicit knowledge bases). The different software agent types have been developed to work with sensor hardware to conduct resource negotiation, to optimize battery utilization, to monitor building space in a non-intrusive way and to reason about its usage through real time ontology model queries. The deployed sensor network shows promising intelligent characteristics, and it has been applied in several on-going research projects as an underlying decision making service. More applications and larger deployments have been planned for future work.

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