{"title":"Introduction to the Track C","authors":"J. Bradshaw, M. Pechoucek, Niranjan Suri, A. Tate","doi":"10.1109/DIS.2006.45","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DIS.2006.45","url":null,"abstract":"Besides numerous applications in industry and commerce the intelligent distributed systems technologies are ready to be deployed in fields of defense logistics applications, international coalitions operations, humanitarian relief operations and other OOTW (Operations Other Than War). For these very specific application domains the international research community provides different techniques for distributed decision making, knowledge based systems, collective planning, multi-agent systems and intelligent agent technologies, but also methods of knowledge sharing and interoperability provisioning.","PeriodicalId":318812,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Workshop on Distributed Intelligent Systems: Collective Intelligence and Its Applications (DIS'06)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116686158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Organization Model based on Party Pattern to Support Dynamic Change for Role-based Workflow Application","authors":"Shuren Bai, Peng Du","doi":"10.1109/DIS.2006.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DIS.2006.12","url":null,"abstract":"An organization model describes the relationships between personnel and the structure of the organization. While flexible, dynamic changes in organizations is also an important, yet unresolved problem which appears in many domains, but very few approaches of organization modeling can address dynamic changes in organizational structures, so some new approaches and technologies for organization model design seem to be inevitable. In this paper, firstly we particularly discuss the essentiality of organization model design in workflow systems, and propose a novel organization model based on party pattern by an analyzing and comparing traditional organization models. Secondly, for integrating it into a workflow model seamlessly, we use a role model connect of these two disparate models. This integrated model is desired to adapt various changes including personnel changes, organization changes and process changes etc., and realize the amalgamation of personnel, organization and computer application system naturally in order to accomplish given tasks successfully","PeriodicalId":318812,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Workshop on Distributed Intelligent Systems: Collective Intelligence and Its Applications (DIS'06)","volume":"13 7","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121004616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards Autonomic and Situation-Aware Communication Services: the CASCADAS Vision","authors":"A. Manzalini, F. Zambonelli","doi":"10.1109/DIS.2006.71","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DIS.2006.71","url":null,"abstract":"The complexity of modern networks raises several challenges in the design and development of communication services. The unbearable costs in configuration and management call for autonomic approaches, in which services are able to self-configure and self-adapt their activities without human intervention. The need for ubiquity of service provisioning calls for the capability of services of adapting their behavior depending on the current situation in which they are used. In this paper, after having discussed the need for innovative approaches facilitating the development and execution of autonomic and situation-aware services, we analyze the key features that should underly such a general approach, propose an architecture centered around the abstraction of \"autonomic communication elements\", and sketch the main research thrusts to be pursued for the realization of the vision","PeriodicalId":318812,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Workshop on Distributed Intelligent Systems: Collective Intelligence and Its Applications (DIS'06)","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127252433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Strasser, I. Muller, C. Sunder, O. Hummer, H. Uhrmann
{"title":"Modeling of Reconfiguration Control Applications based on the IEC 61499 Reference Model for Industrial Process Measurement and Control Systems","authors":"T. Strasser, I. Muller, C. Sunder, O. Hummer, H. Uhrmann","doi":"10.1109/DIS.2006.49","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DIS.2006.49","url":null,"abstract":"Future manufacturing is envisioned to be highly flexible and adaptable. New technologies for efficient engineering of reconfigurable systems and their adaptations are preconditions for this vision. Without such solutions, engineering adaptations of Industrial Process Measurement and Control Systems (IPMCS) will exceed the costs of engineered systems by far and the reuse of equipment will become inefficient. In this work a new approach for the reconfiguration of IEC 61499 based control application and the corresponding modeling is proposed. This new method significantly increases engineering efficiency and reuse in component-based IPMCSs control","PeriodicalId":318812,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Workshop on Distributed Intelligent Systems: Collective Intelligence and Its Applications (DIS'06)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127955749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction to Special Session (R) on Role-Based Collaboration","authors":"Haibin Zhu","doi":"10.1109/DIS.2006.41","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DIS.2006.41","url":null,"abstract":"Role-based collaboration (RBC) is an emerging technology. Role-based approaches may significantly change and improve the infrastructure of management, organization, collaboration, and system development. This is the fourth year to organize a special session for RBC. The past special sessions were for IEEE International Conferences on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC) (2003: Washington D.C., USA; 2004: The Netherlands; and 2005: Hawaii, USA). The successfulness encourages the continuing efforts. Role concepts have been applied widely in behavioral science, management, sociology, and psychology for many years. Roles are very useful in modeling the authority, responsibility, functions and interactions associated with manager positions within organizations.","PeriodicalId":318812,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Workshop on Distributed Intelligent Systems: Collective Intelligence and Its Applications (DIS'06)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130002772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modelling a Typical Guerrilla War","authors":"J. Doran","doi":"10.1109/DIS.2006.50","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DIS.2006.50","url":null,"abstract":"An agent-based model of a typical guerrilla war, the Iruba model, has been designed and implemented based upon published descriptions and theories of guerrilla warfare. Experimental results have been obtained with the model and conclusions drawn. A core feedback loop is detected. The possibility of using the Iruba model to predict the outcomes of specific guerrilla wars is discussed and it is suggested that such predictive models are feasible and are potentially useful tools for peacemakers","PeriodicalId":318812,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Workshop on Distributed Intelligent Systems: Collective Intelligence and Its Applications (DIS'06)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130714503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Scalable HIL Simulator for Multi-Agent Systems Interacting in Physical Environments","authors":"Z. Papp, F. den Ouden, B. Netten, A. Zoutendijk","doi":"10.1109/DIS.2006.65","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DIS.2006.65","url":null,"abstract":"Important application domains of multi-agent systems require agent interactions in physical environments (e.g. mobile robotics, intelligent transportation systems, etc.). Sensing and sensory data interpretation play ever increasing role because sensing becomes the primary way of collecting information about the environment. In the most challenging cases the environment is unstructured, which results in demanding data interpretation and control algorithms. Similarly, the control and decision-making algorithms inevitably become more complex in order to be able to cope with the unstructured and dynamic environment. Consequently a sophisticated evaluation/test environment is required, which provides full control of the circumstances, reproducibility and flexible mix of real and virtual components. The paper presents the runtime architecture of a simulation environment (MARS), which assures scalable real-time performance and a modeling framework, which supports incorporating high fidelity sensor models. The tool is capable of simulating accurate agent interactions in physical environments and creating mixed virtual-real worlds for testing multi-agent systems","PeriodicalId":318812,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Workshop on Distributed Intelligent Systems: Collective Intelligence and Its Applications (DIS'06)","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132840884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K. De Swert, P. Valckenaers, B. Saint German, P. Verstraete, Hadeli, H. Van Brussel
{"title":"Coordination and control for railroad networks inspired by manufacturing control","authors":"K. De Swert, P. Valckenaers, B. Saint German, P. Verstraete, Hadeli, H. Van Brussel","doi":"10.1109/DIS.2006.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DIS.2006.21","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a multi-agent coordination and control system for railroad networks. The system is an extension of a framework that implements the PROSA reference architecture augmented with forecasting mechanisms. PROSA targets coordination & control problems in manufacturing environments. The existing framework was extended for railroad control without requiring any significant changes to the PROSA framework itself. The forecasting capabilities of the framework were used to create a robust railroad controller. By using forecasting mechanisms, train services are able to anticipate and avoid impending problems. The development revealed how the extensions, needed for railroad networks, are equally useful for certain manufacturing control tasks","PeriodicalId":318812,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Workshop on Distributed Intelligent Systems: Collective Intelligence and Its Applications (DIS'06)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114745233","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. McGuire, G. Liggins, A. Benaskeur, R. Brennan, P. Wojcik
{"title":"The Application of Holonic Control to Tactical Sensor Management","authors":"P. McGuire, G. Liggins, A. Benaskeur, R. Brennan, P. Wojcik","doi":"10.1109/DIS.2006.68","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DIS.2006.68","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we report on the project initiated by Defense R&D Canada -Valcartier that is intended as a vehicle to assess holonic control as a means of improving tactical sensor management for distributed military surveillance operations. Three levels of sensor management are considered: sensor, platform, and group. The general holonic architecture and the individual holons at each level are described as well as our next steps towards the implementation of a simulation of a typical scenario","PeriodicalId":318812,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Workshop on Distributed Intelligent Systems: Collective Intelligence and Its Applications (DIS'06)","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116359851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Robotic Formation Control using Variable Structure Systems Approach","authors":"Q. Ha, H. Ha, G. Dissanayake","doi":"10.1109/DIS.2006.64","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DIS.2006.64","url":null,"abstract":"This paper addresses robust control of multiple mobile robots moving in desired formations. A rigorous control technique for such an agent-based robotic system may encounter problems of singularity, parameter sensitivity and inter-robot collision. Our proposed framework focuses on the enhancement of robustness as well as collision-free establishment of formations even in the case of singularity and uncertainties in sensing information of the reference coordinates by using variable structure controllers incorporated with a reactive control scheme. Advantages of the approach are verified in simulation of three robots moving in a line, a column and a wedge","PeriodicalId":318812,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Workshop on Distributed Intelligent Systems: Collective Intelligence and Its Applications (DIS'06)","volume":"104 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127463674","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}