Poster.

Annotated Bibliography

Surveillance/Monitoring Systems using Agent Based Technology 

Student Name: Asim Lateef

Instructor Name: Mr. Marlen Elliot Harrison, PhD, MA

Course: Critical Information Management XENI004

Date: 25-10-2011

Bruno Abreu, Luis Botelho, Andrea Cavallaro, Damien Douxchamps, Touradj Ebrahimi, Pedro Figueiredo, Benoit Macq, Benoit Mory, Luis Nunes, Javier Orri, Maria Jose’ Trigueiros, Ana Violante

Video-Based Multi- Agent Traffic Surveillance System

http://www.tele.ucl.ac.be/

The paper presents a road monitoring system developed on the basis of generic tools defined by MPEG-7 and FIPA standardisation bodies. It explains “Monitorix”, a video-based traffic surveillance multi-agent system. Monitorix agents are grouped in four tiers, according to the kind of information processing they perform. The main advantage of using agents on top of the video algorithms is twofold: the tasks performed by each agent can be incrementally sophisticated without that affecting the rest of the system; autonomous programs can be independently developed and tested.

2.    P. Remagnino, T. Tanb, K. Bakera:

Multi-agent visual surveillance of dynamic scenes

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0262885698000997

The paper has presented a multi-agent system which uses Bayesian networks to provide semantic interpretation of a dynamic scene. The system provides a verbal description at object and inter-object level. The former is provided by behavior agents which interpret the object behavior and infer their annotations from the information supplied by a vision system which tracks pedestrians and vehicles. The latter is inferred by situation agents which interpret pair wise interactions based on the behavior agents interpretation and their directions of motion. The performance of the system has been demonstrated by annotating an outdoor scene. The agent-based system is very flexible and in the immediate future it will be extended to provide a more global scene interpretation.

3.    Mauro Cesar Bernardes and Edson dos Santos Moreira:

Implementation of an Intrusion Detection System Based on Mobile Agents

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=847862&tag=1

With the ever more widespread use of computer networks and the consequent opening to the outside world, computer systems have become increasingly difficult to protect. Therefore, one of the major concerns of these systems’ managers has been to create barriers against outside invaders.

IDSs must be in place and constantly monitoring, searching for information to identify not only outside attackers but also inside users intentionally or accidentally abusing their privileges.

This paper present an architecture and model of a scenario for the development of an intrusion detection system based on mobile agents. This architecture aims to minimize the costs involved in a monolithic IDS. It consists of the use of a large number of small mobile agents to perform all the tasks of monitoring, decision making, notification and reaction to attempted intrusions. Each agent operates independently from the others; however, they all cooperate in monitoring the system, forming a complex IDS. Based on the implementation of the presented scenario, it was verified that this approach presents significant advantages in terms of overhead, scalability and flexibility.

D. Ouelhadj’ C Hanachi’ BBouzouid

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=846389

This paper describes an intelligent distributed monitoring architecture for Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS) based on the multi-agent paradigm. It presents an architecture for the distributed and real-time monitoring of FMS based on the multi-agent paradigm. The main advantages of this architecture are: flexibility in an ever changing environment, inherent adaptability and reconfiguration, fast and efficient fault-tolerance, modular development, and operational autonomy. The implementation of the multi-agent architecture was carried out in Java because of its object-oriented, distributed, secure, dynamic and high performance programming. The experimental results developed in simulation demonstrated that the multi-agent architecture is a very appropriate framework for distributed and real-time monitoring of FMS.

Annotated Bibliography

Agent Based Manufacturing/Industrial Systems

Student Name: Asim Lateef

Instructor Name: Mr. Marlen Elliot Harrison, PhD, MA

Course: Critical Information Management XENI004

Date: 18-10-2011

1.  L. Monostori, J. Váncza, S.R.T. Kumara: Agent-Based Systems for Manufacturing

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1660277306000053

This paper reviews the agent paradigm of computing and discusses the properties of software agents and the operation of multi-agent systems. A number of agent applications have also been reviewed and hence concluded that various agent technologies are attractive in all main domains of manufacturing because they offer help in realizing important properties as autonomy, responsiveness, modularity and openness.

It is also concluded 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.

2. Weiming Shen , Qi Hao, Hyun Joong Yoon , Douglas H. Norrie: Applications of agent-based systems in intelligent manufacturing: An updated review

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1474034606000292

This paper provides a review on the recent achievements in the areas of agent technology implemented for manufacturing enterprise integration, enterprise collaboration (including supply chain management and virtual enterprises), manufacturing process planning and scheduling, shop floor control, and to holonic manufacturing as an implementation methodology. It also discusses some key issues in implementing agent-based manufacturing systems such as agent encapsulation, agent organization, agent coordination and negotiation, system dynamics, learning, optimization, security and privacy, tools and standards.

3. David Isern, David Sánchez, Antonio Moreno: Agents applied in health care: A review

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S138650561000016X

This article discusses the analysis of a review of 15-agent based systems selected according to a set of criteria of work relevancy. The authors analyze the systems and conclude that the agent based systems offer added values over classical software approaches (e.g. reusability, reliability, flexibility, robustness, maintainability and adaptability). Furthermore, agent technology supports the integration of legacy systems, tackling the shortcomings of centralized systems, such as performance bottlenecks, resource limitations, and different

kinds of failures.

4. Francisco Maturana, Weiming Shen and Douglas H. Norrie: MetaMorph: An Adaptive Agent-Based Architecture for Intelligent Manufacturing

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.40.6080

This paper reviews “An adaptive agent-based architecture called MetaMorph” and proposes it for intelligent manufacturing systems using the mediator-centric federation approach. The MetaMorph architecture also addresses other specific requirements for next generation manufacturing systems, including scalability, reliability, maintainability, flexibility, real-time planning and scheduling, standardised communication, fault tolerance, stability, learning, forecasting, and security. The experimental results from the MetaMorph simulation have shown the potential of the agent-based approach for advanced manufacturing systems.