KQML as an agent communication language

An intelligent automated assistant system engages with the user in an integrated, conversational manner using natural language dialog, and invokes external services when appropriate to obtain information or perform various actions. The system can be implemented using any of a number of different platforms, such as the web, email, smartphone, and the like, or any combination thereof. In one embodiment, the system is based on sets of interrelated domains and tasks, and employs additional functionally powered by external services with which the system can interact.

Intelligent Automated Assistant

The various methods and devices described herein relate to devices which, in at least certain embodiments, may include one or more sensors for providing data relating to user activity and at least one processor for causing the device to respond based on the user activity which was determined, at least in part, through the sensors. The response by the device may include a change of state of the device, and the response may be automatically performed after the user activity is determined.

Automated Response to and Sensing of User Activity in Portable Devices

Agent technology has been considered as an important approach for developing distributed intelligent manufacturing systems. A number of researchers have attempted to apply agent technology to manufacturing enterprise integration, supply chain management, manufacturing planning, scheduling and control, materials handling, and holonic manufacturing systems. This paper gives a brief survey of some related projects in this area, and discusses some key issues in developing agent-based manufacturing systems such as agent technology for enterprise integration and supply chain management, agent encapsulation, system architectures, dynamic system reconfiguration, learning, design and manufacturability assessments, distributed dynamic scheduling, integration of planning and scheduling, concurrent scheduling and execution, factory control structures, potential tools and standards for developing agent-based manufacturing systems. An extensive annotated bibliography is provided.

Agent-Based Systems for Intelligent Manufacturing: A State-of-the-Art Survey

The emerging paradigm of agent-based computation has revolutionized the building of intelligent and decentralized systems. The new technologies met well the requirements in all domains of manufacturing where problems of uncertainty and temporal dynamics, information sharing and distributed operation, or coordination and cooperation of autonomous entities had to be tackled. In the paper software agents and multi-agent systems are introduced and through a comprehensive survey, their potential manufacturing applications are outlined. Special emphasis is laid on methodological issues and deployed industrial systems. After discussing open issues and strategic research directions, we conclude that the evolution of agent technologies and manufacturing will probably proceed hand in hand. The former can receive real challenges from the latter, which, in turn, will have more and more benefits in applying agent technologies, presumably together with well-established or emerging approaches of other disciplines.

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Agent-based systems for manufacturing

Information shying and decision coordination arc central problems for collaborative product dcvclopmcnt and enterprise-wide coordination Designcrs, manufacturing cnginccrs, and marketing engineers nccd to assess the impact of their decisions and notify affected parties as the product evolves Yct, cxisting CAD tools tend to isolate information at tool boundarics, or make overly-strong commitmcnts to an all-encompassing common model Furthcrmorc, there is oftcn no automatcd support outside of thc design function The SHADE (SHAred Dcpcndcncy Engineering) project is working on knowlcdge-b~cd methods to improve the communication in the product dcvclopmcnt process Thcre arc three mare components of SHADE: a shared knowledge representation (language and domain-specific vocabulary); protocols for information cxch,’mgc enabling change notification and subscription; and facilitation scrviccs such ,as contcnt-dircctcd routing ,~nd intelligent matching of information consumers and producers SHADE is being applied to sew’r~d real domains, including the Palo Alto Collaborative Tcstbcd

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Daniel R. Kuokka

Papers

SHADE: Technology for knowledge-based collaborative engineering