Advanced Agent Based Environmental Management Systems

Author : Ulises Cortes Garcia,Manel Poch
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783764389000

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Advanced Agent-Based Environmental Management Systems by Ulises Cortes Garcia,Manel Poch Pdf

Multi-agent Systems (MAS) are one of the most exciting research areas in Artificial Intelligence meanwhile Environmental Studies is a research area of strategic interest. Both areas can provide society with solutions for many real applications, in order to use and protect the environment. Human activities imply intervention into nature, but properly managed, these interventions can not be only ecologically sound but also favourable to the sustainable development of civilisation. The encounter between these fields is a new challenge for many researchers of both communities. This book presents a comprehensive reference of state-of-the-art efforts. Specifically, it presents current and future ways in which adaptive information technologies, techniques, protocols and architectures, such as software agent technologies and multi-agent systems, can be used to support the development of real-world agent-based systems in the area of e-Environment.

Author : Ulises Cortes Garcia,Manel Poch
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 3764398841

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Advanced Agent-Based Environmental Management Systems by Ulises Cortes Garcia,Manel Poch Pdf

Multi-agent Systems (MAS) are one of the most exciting research areas in Artificial Intelligence meanwhile Environmental Studies is a research area of strategic interest. Both areas can provide society with solutions for many real applications, in order to use and protect the environment. Human activities imply intervention into nature, but properly managed, these interventions can not be only ecologically sound but also favourable to the sustainable development of civilisation. The encounter between these fields is a new challenge for many researchers of both communities. This book presents a comprehensive reference of state-of-the-art efforts. Specifically, it presents current and future ways in which adaptive information technologies, techniques, protocols and architectures, such as software agent technologies and multi-agent systems, can be used to support the development of real-world agent-based systems in the area of e-Environment.

Author : Juan M. Corchado,Javier Bajo,Jaroslaw Kozlak,Pawel Pawlewski,Jose M. Molina,Gaudou Benoit,Vicente Julian,Rainer Unland,Fernando Lopes,Kasper Hallenborg,Pedro Garcia Teodoro
Publisher : Springer
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319077673

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Highlights of Practical Applications of Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Systems - The PAAMS Collection by Juan M. Corchado,Javier Bajo,Jaroslaw Kozlak,Pawel Pawlewski,Jose M. Molina,Gaudou Benoit,Vicente Julian,Rainer Unland,Fernando Lopes,Kasper Hallenborg,Pedro Garcia Teodoro Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the workshops which complemented the 12th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, PAAMS 2014, held in Salamanca, Spain, in June 2014. This volume presents the papers that have been accepted for the following workshops: Workshop on Agent-based Approaches for the Transportation Modeling and Optimization (AATMO 2014); Workshop on Agent-based Modeling and Simulation of Complex Systems: Engineering and Applications (ABSEA 2014); Workshop on Agents and Multi-Agent Systems for Ambient-assisted Living and e-Health (A-HEALTH 2014); Workshop on Agent-based Solutions for Manufacturing and Supply Chain (AMSC 2014); Workshop on Intelligent Systems for Context-based Information Fusion (ISCIF 2014); Workshop on Multi-Agent based Applications for Smart Grids and Sustainable Energy Systems (MASGES 2014); Workshop on Active Security Through Multi-Agent Systems (WASMAS 2014); Workshop on Intelligent Human-Agent Societies (WIHAS 2014).

Author : Omid Bozorg-Haddad,Babak Zolghadr-Asli
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789811925191

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Computational Intelligence for Water and Environmental Sciences by Omid Bozorg-Haddad,Babak Zolghadr-Asli Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive yet fresh perspective for the cutting-edge CI-oriented approaches in water resources planning and management. The book takes a deep dive into topics like meta-heuristic evolutionary optimization algorithms (e.g., GA, PSA, etc.), data mining techniques (e.g., SVM, ANN, etc.), probabilistic and Bayesian-oriented frameworks, fuzzy logic, AI, deep learning, and expert systems. These approaches provide a practical approach to understand and resolve complicated and intertwined real-world problems that often imposed serious challenges to traditional deterministic precise frameworks. The topic caters to postgraduate students and senior researchers who are interested in computational intelligence approach to issues stemming from water and environmental sciences.

Author : Ioannis N. Athanasiadis,Pericles A. Mitkas,Andrea E. Rizzoli,Jorge Marx Gómez
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 605 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540883517

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Information Technologies in Environmental Engineering by Ioannis N. Athanasiadis,Pericles A. Mitkas,Andrea E. Rizzoli,Jorge Marx Gómez Pdf

Information technologies have evolved to an enabling science for natural resource management and conservation, environmental engineering, scientific simulation and integrated assessment studies. Computing plays a significant role in every day practices of environmental engineers, natural scientists, economists, and social scientists. The complexity of natural phenomena requires interdisciplinary approaches, where computing science offers the infrastructure for environmental data collection and management, scientific simulations, decision support documentation and reporting. Ecology, environmental engineering and natural resource management comprise an excellent real-world testbed for IT system demonstration, while raising new challenges for computer science. Complexity, uncertainty and scaling issues of natural systems form a demanding application domain for sensor networks and earth observation systems; modelling, simulation and scientific workflows, data management and reporting, decision support and intelligent systems, distributed computing environments, geographical information systems, heterogeneous systems integration, software engineering, accounting systems and control systems. This books offers a collection of papers presented at the 4th International Symposium on Environmental Engineering, held in May 2009, in Thessaloniki, Greece. Recent success stories in ecoinformatics, promising ideas and new challenges are discussed among computer scientists, environmental engineers, economists and social scientists, demonstrating new paradigms for problem solving and decision making.

Author : Narjès Bellamine Ben Saoud,Carole Adam,Chihab Hanachi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319243993

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Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management in Mediterranean Countries by Narjès Bellamine Ben Saoud,Carole Adam,Chihab Hanachi Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management in Mediterranean Countries, ISCRAM‐med 2015, held in Tunis, Tunisia, in October 2015. The objectives of the ISCRAM‐med conference are to provide an outstanding opportunity and an international forum for local and international researchers, practitioners, and policy makers to address and discuss new trends and challenges with respect to information systems for crisis response and disaster management. The 14 full papers and 4 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 41 submissions. They are organized in topical sections on social computing, modeling and simulation, information and knowledge management, engineering of emergency management systems, and decision support systems and collaboration.

Author : Jiri Hrebicek,Gerald Schimak,Ralf Denzer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 677 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-28
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642222856

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Environmental Software Systems. Frameworks of eEnvironment by Jiri Hrebicek,Gerald Schimak,Ralf Denzer Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th IFIP WG 5.11 International Symposium on Environmental Software Systems, ISESS 2011, held in Brno, Czech Republic, in June 2011. The 68 revised full papers presented together with four invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: eEnvironment and cross-border services in digital agenda for Europe; environmental information systems and services - infrastructures and platforms; semantics and environment; information tools for global environmental assessment; climate services and environmental tools for urban planning and climate change - applications and services.

Author : Yves Demazeau,Bo An,Javier Bajo,Antonio Fernández-Caballero
Publisher : Springer
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-19
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319945804

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Advances in Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Complexity: The PAAMS Collection by Yves Demazeau,Bo An,Javier Bajo,Antonio Fernández-Caballero Pdf

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, PAAMS 2018, held in Toledo, Spain, in June 2018. The 20 regular and 19 demo papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 57 submissions. They deal with the application and validation of agent-based models, methods, and technologies in a number of key applications areas, such as: energy and security; engineering and tools; evaluation and ethics; negotiation and organisations; personalization and learning; simulation applications; simulation platforms; social networks and humans. The book also contains two invited talks in full paper length.

Author : Theodor Borangiu,André Thomas,Damien Trentesaux
Publisher : Springer
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-17
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319151595

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Service Orientation in Holonic and Multi-agent Manufacturing by Theodor Borangiu,André Thomas,Damien Trentesaux Pdf

This volume gathers the peer reviewed papers presented at the 4th edition of the International Workshop “Service Orientation in Holonic and Multi-agent Manufacturing – SOHOMA’14” organized and hosted on November 5-6, 2014 by the University of Lorraine, France in collaboration with the CIMR Research Centre of the University Politehnica of Bucharest and the TEMPO Laboratory of the University of Valenciennes and Hainaut-Cambrésis. The book is structured in six parts, each one covering a specific research line which represents a trend in future manufacturing: (1) Holonic and Agent-based Industrial Automation Systems; (2) Service-oriented Management and Control of Manufacturing Systems; (3) Distributed Modelling for Safety and Security in Industrial Systems; (4) Complexity, Big Data and Virtualization in Computing-oriented Manufacturing; (5) Adaptive, Bio-inspired and Self-organizing Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing and (6) Physical Internet Simulation, Modelling and Control. There is a clear orientation of the SOHOMA’14 workshop towards complexity, which is a common view of all six parts. There is need for a framework allowing the development of manufacturing cyber physical systems including capabilities for complex event processing and data analytics which are expected to move the manufacturing domain closer towards cloud manufacturing within contextual enterprises. Recent advances in sensor, communication and intelligent computing technologies made possible the Internet connectivity of the physical world: the Physical Internet, where not only documents and images are created, shared, or modified in the cyberspace, but also the physical resources and products interact over Internet and make decisions based on shared communication.

Author : Florentin Smarandache, Stefan Vladutescu, Alina Tenescu
Publisher : Infinite Study
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Communication
ISBN : 9786061142262

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Current Communication Difficulties by Florentin Smarandache, Stefan Vladutescu, Alina Tenescu Pdf

Our thesis is that communication has several sources. Some may be considered as main sources or constitutive sources from which communication springs, and others may be considered as secondary or complementary sources of communication. We can thus acknowledge eight main sources of communication: rhetoric, persuasion, psychology, sociology, anthropology, semiotics, linguistics and political science. Rhetoric is the first and oldest discipline which studied certain communication phenomena; rhetoric has outlined a proto-object of communication. Sociology is the most powerful source of communication methodology: sociology has supplied most of the theories and methods that have led to the discipline of communication growing autonomously. We assert that secondary sources of communication are: philosophy, ethics, pragmatics, mathematics, cybernetics and ecology. [Florentin Smarandache & Ştefan Vlăduţescu] *** The book has 15 chapters written by the following authors and co-authors from USA, England, China, Poland, Serbia, Bulgaria, Slovakia, and Romania: Florentin Smarandache, Ştefan Vlăduţescu, Jim O’Brien, Svetislav Paunovic, Mariana Man, Zhaoxun Song, Dandan Shan, Maria Nowicka-Skowron, Sorin Mihai Radu, Janusz Grabara, Ioan Cosmescu, Adrian Nicolescu, Krasimira Dimitrova, Alina Țenescu, Sebastian Kot, Beata Ślusarczyk, Maria Măcriș, Iwona Grabara, Piotr Pachura, Mircea Bunaciu, Jozef Novak-Marcincin, Mircea Duică, Odette Arhip, Vlad Roșca, and Vladimir-Aurelian Enăchescu.

Author : Francesco Flammini,Roberto Setola,Giorgio Franceschetti
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 647 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-10
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781439883242

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Effective Surveillance for Homeland Security by Francesco Flammini,Roberto Setola,Giorgio Franceschetti Pdf

Effective Surveillance for Homeland Security: Balancing Technology and Social Issues provides a comprehensive survey of state-of-the-art methods and tools for the surveillance and protection of citizens and critical infrastructures against natural and deliberate threats. Focusing on current technological challenges involving multi-disciplinary problem analysis and systems engineering approaches, it provides an overview of the most relevant aspects of surveillance systems in the framework of homeland security. Addressing both advanced surveillance technologies and the related socio-ethical issues, the book consists of 21 chapters written by international experts from the various sectors of homeland security. Part I, Surveillance and Society, focuses on the societal dimension of surveillance—stressing the importance of societal acceptability as a precondition to any surveillance system. Part II, Physical and Cyber Surveillance, presents advanced technologies for surveillance. It considers developing technologies that are part of a framework whose aim is to move from a simple collection and storage of information toward proactive systems that are able to fuse several information sources to detect relevant events in their early incipient phase. Part III, Technologies for Homeland Security, considers relevant applications of surveillance systems in the framework of homeland security. It presents real-world case studies of how innovative technologies can be used to effectively improve the security of sensitive areas without violating the rights of the people involved. Examining cutting-edge research topics, the book provides you with a comprehensive understanding of the technological, legislative, organizational, and management issues related to surveillance. With a specific focus on privacy, it presents innovative solutions to many of the issues that remain in the quest to balance security with the preservation of privacy that society demands.

Author : Mohd Hafiz Mohd,Joel M. Addawe,Hirohide Haga,Junpyo Park,Tri Nguyen-Huu
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832526651

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Advances in data-driven approaches and modeling of complex systems by Mohd Hafiz Mohd,Joel M. Addawe,Hirohide Haga,Junpyo Park,Tri Nguyen-Huu Pdf

Author : Elso Kuljanic
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005-07-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 3211265376

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AMST'05 Advanced Manufacturing Systems and Technology by Elso Kuljanic Pdf

Manufacturing a product is not difficult, the difficulty consists in manufacturing a product of high quality, at a low cost and rapidly. Drastic technological advances are changing global markets very rapidly. In such conditions the ability to compete successfully must be based on innovative ideas and new products which has to be of high quality yet low in price. One way to achieve these objecti ves would be through massive investments in research of computer based technology and by applying the approaches presented in this book. The First International Conference on Advanced Manufacturing Systems and Technology AMST87 was held in Opatija (Croatia) in October 1987. The Second International Conference on Advanced Manufacturing Systems and Technology AMSV90 was held in Trento (Italy) in lune 1990. The Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Conferences on Advanced Manufacturing Systems and Technology were all held in Udine (Italy) as follows: AMST93 in April 1993, AMST96 in September 1996, AMST99 in June 1999 and AMST02 in June 2002.

Author : Todd K. BenDor,Jürgen Scheffran
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351106245

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Agent-Based Modeling of Environmental Conflict and Cooperation by Todd K. BenDor,Jürgen Scheffran Pdf

Conflict is a major facet of many environmental challenges of our time. However, growing conflict complexity makes it more difficult to identify win-win strategies for sustainable conflict resolution. Innovative methods are needed to help predict, understand, and resolve conflicts in cooperative ways. Agent-Based Modeling of Environmental Conflict and Cooperation examines computer modeling techniques as an important set of tools for assessing environmental and resource-based conflicts and, ultimately, for finding pathways to conflict resolution and cooperation. This book has two major goals. First, it argues that complexity science can be a unifying framework for professions engaged in conflict studies and resolution, including anthropology, law, management, peace studies, urban planning, and geography. Second, this book presents an innovative framework for approaching conflicts as complex adaptive systems by using many forms of environmental analysis, including system dynamics modeling, agent-based modeling, evolutionary game theory, viability theory, and network analysis. Known as VIABLE (Values and Investments from Agent-Based interaction and Learning in Environmental systems), this framework allows users to model advanced facets of conflicts—including institution building, coalition formation, adaptive learning, and the potential for future conflict—and conflict resolution based on the long-term viability of the actors’ strategies. Written for scholars, students, practitioners, and policy makers alike, this book offers readers an extensive introduction to environmental conflict research and resolution techniques. As the result of decades of research, the text presents a strong argument for conflict modeling and reviews the most popular and advanced techniques, including system dynamics modeling, agent-based modeling, and participatory modeling methods. This indispensable guide uses NetLogo, a widely used and free modeling software package, to implement the VIABLE modeling approach in three case study applications around the world. Readers are invited to explore, adapt, modify, and expand these models to conflicts they hope to better understand and resolve.

Author : Utomo Sarjono Putro,Manabu Ichikawa,Manahan Siallagan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811036620

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Agent-Based Approaches in Economics and Social Complex Systems IX by Utomo Sarjono Putro,Manabu Ichikawa,Manahan Siallagan Pdf

This book includes many cases that provide new perspectives in developing agent-based modeling and simulation. The real problems are complex, and sophisticated methodology is needed to handle them. Agent-based modeling and simulation is one methodology that provides a bottom-up experimental approach applicable to social sciences such as economics, management, sociology, and politics as well as some engineering fields dealing with social activities. However, to improve the applicability of agent-based modeling and simulation methods, a new perspective is needed. In this book, that new perspective is developed and utilized to deal with many cases of real-world problems such as the supply chain, land use and land cover, transportation, health, services, economics, and social problems. The cases are selected from papers presented at the Ninth International Workshop on Agent-Based Approaches in Economic and Social Complex Systems held in Bali, Indonesia, in 2015. At the workshop, 29 reviewed full papers were presented, and of those, 16 were selected to be included in this volume.