This paper presents an approach to the creation of an agent-based system for the assessment of environmental impact upon human health. As indicators of the environmental impact water pollution, indexes of traffic and industrial activity, wastes and solar radiation are assumed. And as human health indicator morbidity is taken. All the data comprise multiple heterogeneous data repositories. The s...

The development of industrial case-based reasoning systems that have to operate within a continually evolving environment, is a challenging problem. Industrial applications require of robust and competent systems. When the problem domain is evolving, the solutions provided by the system can easily become wrong. In this paper we present an algorithm for dealing with real-world domains where case...

This paper introduces a component model that allows the modular design and development of components and applications for Open and Distributed Systems. It defines the concepts of components and reusable controllers, permits their modular composition to build up applications, and it is devised to address in an independent manner many of the specific issues of these systems, like heterogeneity, e...

Healthcare professionals use Activities of Daily Living (ADL) to characterize a patient’s functional status and to evaluate the effectiveness of treatment plans. ADLs are traditionally measured using standardized text-based questionnaires and the only form of personalization is in the form of question branching logic. Pervasive smartphone adoption makes it feasible to consider more frequent pat...

Semantic trajectory pattern mining is becoming more and more important with the rapidly growing volumes of semantically rich trajectory data. Extracting sequential patterns in semantic trajectories plays a key role in understanding semantic behaviour of human movement, which can widely be used in many applications such as location-based advertising, road capacity optimisation, and urban plannin...

In component-based design, components and communication mechanisms have a different nature; while the former represent the agents that cooperate to fulfill a certain goal, the latter formalise the communication mechanism through which these agents interact. A proper formalisation of the heterogeneity that arises from this difference requires one to employ the most adequate formalism for each of...

In this paper we address the critical link between design thinking (DT) and software engineering by investigating the role of models as artifacts crossing the boundaries from designers to other disciplines like engineering. We introduce our approach (mDT, multidisciplinary Design Thinking) by describing its methods. We show how the results of a DT process can be handed over to others. We focus ...

This paper describes the use of a genetic algorithm (GA) to find optimal parameter-values for trading agents that operate in virtual online auction ‘e-marketplaces’, where the rules of those marketplaces are also under simultaneous control of the GA. The aim is to use the GA to automatically design new mechanisms for agent-based e-marketplaces that are more efficient than online markets designe...

The paper discusses usability and communicative capability of mobile multimodal systems. It reports on the evaluation of one particular interactive multimodal route navigation system and discusses the challenges encountered in this task. The main questions concerned the user’s preference of one input mode over the other (speech vs. tactile/graphics input), usefulness of the system in completing...

Past research shows that the goal of knowledge-based systems (KBSs) is not only to produce a solution to a problem situation they face, but also to construct, implicitly or explicitly, a situationspecific model (SSM) that explicates the rationale behind that solution. This paper focuses on how KBSs can benefit from the availability of explicit goal knowledge that reflects the underlying structu...