Organization of Multi-Agent Systems: An Overview
Hosny Ahmed Abbas,
Samir Ibrahim Shaheen,
Mohammed Hussein Amin
Issue:
Volume 4, Issue 3, June 2015
Pages:
46-57
Received:
1 June 2015
Accepted:
14 June 2015
Published:
29 June 2015
Abstract: In complex, open, and heterogeneous environments, agents must be able to reorganize towards the most appropriate organizations to adapt unpredictable environment changes within Multi-Agent Systems (MAS). Types of reorganization can be seen from two different levels. The individual agents level (micro-level) in which an agent changes its behaviors and interactions with other agents to adapt its local environment. And the organizational level (macro-level) in which the whole system changes it structure by adding or removing agents. This chapter is dedicated to overview different aspects of what is called MAS Organization including its motivations, paradigms, models, and techniques adopted for statically or dynamically organizing agents in MAS.
Abstract: In complex, open, and heterogeneous environments, agents must be able to reorganize towards the most appropriate organizations to adapt unpredictable environment changes within Multi-Agent Systems (MAS). Types of reorganization can be seen from two different levels. The individual agents level (micro-level) in which an agent changes its behaviors a...
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Vehicle Fault Diagnostics Using Text Mining, Vehicle Engineering Structure and Machine Learning
Yi Lu Murphey,
Liping Huang,
Hao Xing Wang,
Yinghao Huang
Issue:
Volume 4, Issue 3, June 2015
Pages:
58-70
Received:
17 June 2015
Accepted:
29 June 2015
Published:
9 July 2015
Abstract: This paper presents an intelligent vehicle fault diagnostics system, SeaProSel(Search-Prompt-Select). SeaProSel takes a casual description of vehicle problems as input and searches for a diagnostic code that accurately matches the problem description. SeaProSel was developed using automatic text classification and machine learning techniques combined with a prompt-and-select technique based on the vehicle diagnostic engineering structure to provide robust classification of the diagnostic code that accurately matches the problem description. Machine learning algorithms are developed to automatically learn words and terms, and their variations commonly used in verbal descriptions of vehicle problems, and to build a TCW(Term-Code-Weight) matrix that is used for measuring similarity between a document vector and a diagnostic code class vector. When no exactly matched diagnostic code is found based on the direct search using the TCW matrix, the SeaProSel system will search the vehicle fault diagnostic structure for the proper questions to pose to the user in order to obtain more details about the problem. A LSI (Latent Semantic Indexing) model is also presented and analyzed in the paper. The performances of the LSI model and TCW models are presented and discussed. An in-depth study of different term weight functions and their performances are presented. All experiments are conducted on real-world vehicle diagnostic data, and the results show that the proposed SeaProSel system generates accurate results efficiently for vehicle fault diagnostics.
Abstract: This paper presents an intelligent vehicle fault diagnostics system, SeaProSel(Search-Prompt-Select). SeaProSel takes a casual description of vehicle problems as input and searches for a diagnostic code that accurately matches the problem description. SeaProSel was developed using automatic text classification and machine learning techniques combin...
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