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The Second AgentLink III Technical Forum
Full text linkReport on the The Second AgentLink III Technical Forum, Ljubljana, Slovenia, February 28 – March 2, 2005
2nd AgentLink III Technical Forum (AL3-TF2)
No full textForum Chair: Andrea Omicini (Universita' di Bologna a Cesena)
Forum Co-chairs: Matjaz Gams (University of Ljubljana), Paolo Petta (OFAI and Medical University of Vienna, Austria)
AgentLink III seeks to promote the development and adoption of agent research and technology across Europe. One of its main means for achieving this goal is the Technical Forum Groups (TFGs). Successors of AgentLink I & II Special Interest Groups (SIGs), TFGs are intended to provide a common meeting place for researchers and developers who share an interest in a specific sub-area of agent technology. The AgentLink III Technical Fora are periodical events held throughout the two-year lifespan of AgentLink III, which provide TF Groups with the opportunity to meet, to share ideas and results, and to co-ordinate their future research agendas. In short, the aims of the AgentLink III Technical Fora are:
• to facilitate the development of communities around specific areas of strategic importance for European agent R&D, enabling them to share common problems, issues, and results in a manner that other fora (e.g., academic workshops and conferences) do not allow;
• to respond dynamically to fast-changing developments;
• to support the updating of the AgentLink III roadmap from that produced during AgentLink II;
• to provide the AgentLink III management committee with “bottom-up” input to its decision- making process, and hence ensure that the strategic direction of the network is reactive to the needs of its members;
• to establish links with related areas within computing, and related areas in other research disciplines, such as economics and biology. Differently from normal scientific activity, as it usually occurs in conferences and workshops, TFGs were not designed to be “publication-oriented”, but primarily “connection-oriented”.
The Second AgentLink III Technical Forum (AL3-TF2) took place in Ljubliana, Slovienia, from 28 February to 2 March 2005. More than 100 researchers from across Europe made of this third Forum a very successful event, with each TFG counting on a wide and diverse group of participants. The overall atmosphere was friendly and fruitful throughout, with several new co-operations and possible future initiatives emerging from the presentations and discussions
The Second AgentLink III Technical Forum: Main Issues and Hot Topics in European Agent Research
No full textIntroduzione allo Special Issue "Hot Topics in European Agent Research I" sulla rivista internazionale "Informatica", vol. 29 no.
Artificial Intelligence and Ambient Intelligence
Full text linkThis book includes a series of scientific papers published in the Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence and Ambient Intelligence at the journal Electronics MDPI. The book starts with an opinion paper on “Relations between Electronics, Artificial Intelligence and Information Society through Information Society Rules”, presenting relations between information society, electronics and artificial intelligence mainly through twenty-four IS laws. After that, the book continues with a series of technical papers that present applications of Artificial Intelligence and Ambient Intelligence in a variety of fields including affective computing, privacy and security in smart environments, and robotics. More specifically, the first part presents usage of Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods in combination with wearable devices (e.g., smartphones and wristbands) for recognizing human psychological states (e.g., emotions and cognitive load). The second part presents usage of AI methods in combination with laser sensors or Wi-Fi signals for improving security in smart buildings by identifying and counting the number of visitors. The last part presents usage of AI methods in robotics for improving robots’ ability for object gripping manipulation and perception. The language of the book is rather technical, thus the intended audience are scientists and researchers who have at least some basic knowledge in computer science
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Comparing a Traditional and a Multi-Agent Load-Balancing System
Full text linkThis article presents a comparison between agent and non-agent based approaches to building network-load-balancing systems. In particular, two large software systems are compared, one traditional and the other agent-based, both performing the same load balancing functions. Due to the two different architectures, several differences emerge. The differences are analyzed theoretically and practically in terms of design, scalability and fault-tolerance. The advantages and disadvantages of both approaches are presented by combining an analysis of the system and gathering the experience of designers, developers and users. Traditionally, designers specify rigid software structure, while for multi-agent systems the emphasis is on specifying the different tasks and roles, as well as the interconnections between the agents that cooperate autonomously and simultaneously. The major advantages of the multi-agent approach are the introduced abstract design layers and, as a consequence, the more comprehendible top-level design, the increased redundancy, and the improved fault tolerance. The major improvement in performance due to the agent architecture is observed in the case of one or more failed computers. Although the agent-oriented design might not be a silver bullet for building large distributed systems, our analysis and application confirm that it does have a number of advantages over non-agent approaches
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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