دانلود کتاب Agents and Multi-agent Systems: Technologies and Applications 2023. Proceedings of 17th KES International Conference, KES-AMSTA 2023, June 2023

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KES-AMSTA-2023 Conference Organization
Preface
Contents
About the Editors
Multi-agent Systems
Agent-Based Medical Image Processing Using Multi-stage Distributed Neural Network
1 Introduction
2 Application in Magnetic Resonance Imaging Workflow
3 Multi-agent Systems in Medical Imaging
4 Model
5 Market-Based Environment for Multi-agent Systems
5.1 Scenario-Based Negotiation
5.2 Award Function
6 Conclusion and Future Work
References
RoboTwin: Combining Digital Twin and Artificial Intelligence Domains for Controlling Robots in Industry 4.0
1 Introduction
2 Background
2.1 Digital Twin (DT)
2.2 Machine Learning Approaches for Behavior Learning
2.3 MultiAgent System (MAS)
3 Hypothesis
4 Our Proposal
4.1 Observation
4.2 Learning
4.3 Integration
5 Experiments
6 Conclusions and Future Work
References
A Method of Positioning a Humanoid Robot Relative to the Center of a Group of People—Analysis and Implementation
1 Introduction
1.1 Contribution
1.2 Organization of the Paper
2 Problem Definition
2.1 Robot Positioning Relative to a Single Person
2.2 Robot Positioning Relative to Two Persons
2.3 Positioning Next to Three or More Persons
3 Laboratory Experiments
4 Conclusion
References
How Can Adults Make Time to Study: A System for Employee Sharing and Reskilling Education
1 Introduction
2 Token/Employee Exchange System to Allow Study Time
2.1 System Overview
2.2 Intercompany Employee Exchange Using Virtual Tokens
2.3 Workers Who Attend School
2.4 Salary Paid by the Company
3 Simulation Configurations
3.1 Motivation Value
3.2 Simulation Period
3.3 Amount of Work and Peak/Off-Peak Season
3.4 Token/Employee Exchange and Paid Leave Rate
4 Matching
4.1 Scoring of Workloads and Calculation of Required Number of Employees
4.2 Calculation of the Number of Employees Available to Borrow
4.3 Matching Between Borrowing and Lending Companies
5 Definition of Completion of Education
6 Results and Discussion
6.1 Effectiveness of Completing Education
6.2 Effectiveness of Business Execution
6.3 Which is Less Expensive, Token/Employee Exchange or New Hire?
6.4 Compensation to Companies that Had Many Opportunities to Lend Employees
6.5 Government Subsidies for Companies that Loaned Employees at the End of the Fiscal Year
7 Conclusion
References
Data Discretization for Data Stream Mining
1 Introduction: Motivations and Challenges
2 Related Works
3 Hybrid Online Discretization
4 Experimental Set up
5 Analysis and Empirical Results
6 Conclusion
References
Linear Machine Learning Algorithm for Early Annual Corn Yield Prediction
1 Introduction
2 Related Work
3 Obtained Data and Model
4 Linear Machine Learning Algorithm
5 Result
6 Conclusion and Future Work
References
Agent-Based Modelling and Transportation
Multi-agent Modal Logic Evaluating Implicit Information
1 Introduction
2 Denotation, Definitions, Preliminary Facts
3 Formulation of Main Results, Satisfiability Problem
4 Conclusion
References
Multisectoral Household Location Agent-Based Simulation for Testing Policy Decisions
1 Introduction
2 State of Art
3 Integrating Housing and Premises as an Agent in a Land-Use Model
4 Integrating Low Emission Zone in the Transport Model
5 Study Case
6 Conclusion
References
DaFne: Data Fusion Generator and Synthetic Data Generation for Cities
1 Introduction
2 Methodology
3 DaFne Proceedings and Explorations
3.1 Characterization as Artificial Intelligence as a Service
4 User Research
5 Use Case Design
6 Experiment: Pedestrian Path Generation
7 Conclusion
8 Future Work
References
Application of TDABC Systems and Their Support with ABMS Approach
1 Introduction
2 Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing
3 Business Process Simulation and ABMS Approach
3.1 Agent-Based Modelling and Simulation
4 Methodology
5 Results
6 Conclusion
References
Assessing the Impact of Shared-Taxi Pricing on Congestion Using Agent-Based Modeling
1 Introduction
2 Multi-agent System for the Shared Taxi Service
3 Taxi Pricing Scheme
4 Dispatching Algorithm
5 Experiments
5.1 Results
6 Conclusion
References
Distributed, Classical and Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Problem with Transportation Times: A State-of-the-Art
1 Introduction
2 State-of-the-Art Review
2.1 Exact Methods
2.2 Approximate Methods
2.3 Distributed Methods
3 Analysis and Discussion
4 Conclusion and Perspectives
References
Business Economics
Proposal of Bicycle Sharing Operation System by Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning Using Transfer Learning
1 Introduction
2 Related Work
2.1 User-Based Approach of Bicycle Sharing
2.2 Transfer Reinforcement Learning
3 Proposed Method
3.1 Simulation Environment
3.2 Cooperative Reinforcement Learning
3.3 Selection of a Transfer Site
4 Experiments
4.1 Experiment 1_Transfer Learning with Homogeneous Labels
4.2 Experiment 2_Transfer Learning with Heterogeneous Labels
4.3 Experiment 3_Transfer Learning Between Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Labels
4.4 Experiment 4_Cooperative Transfer Reinforcement Learning
4.5 Discussion
5 Conclusion
References
Change in Centrality and Team Performance: Inverse Relation Between Manager and Non-manager Communication
1 Introduction
2 Previous Research
2.1 Social Network Analysis
2.2 Performance and Centrality in Companies
3 Methodology
3.1 Data Outline
3.2 Variables
4 Results
4.1 Centrality and Performance
4.2 Communication Between Managers and Non-managers
5 Discussion
6 Conclusion
References
Digital Transformation and Cyber Threats for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises
1 Introduction
2 Hypotheses Model
3 Research Design
4 Results
5 Conclusion
References
Impact of Telework on Employee Satisfaction During the COVID-19 Crisis
1 Introduction
2 Research Method and Data Collection
2.1 Research Design
2.2 Data Collection
2.3 Data Analysis
3 Empirical Findings
3.1 Team
3.2 Organizational Prerequisites and Circumstances
3.3 Technical Resources
3.4 Human Resources
3.5 Challenges in Home Office
3.6 Employee Satisfaction
4 Conclusion
References
Bitcoin Fraudulent Transaction Detection Vulnerability
1 Introduction
2 Related Work
3 Data
3.1 Number and Type of Transactions
3.2 Features
4 Analysis Method
4.1 Explore Changes in Illicit Transaction Patterns at Different Time Steps
4.2 Examine the Use of the Anomaly Detection Method to Detect Illicit Transactions
4.3 Visualization of the Graph Information
5 Result
5.1 Explore Changes in Illicit Transaction Patterns at Different Time Steps
5.2 Examine the Use of the Anomaly Detection Method to Detect Illicit Transactions
5.3 Visualization of the Graph Information
6 Conclusion and Discussion
References
The Relationship Between Technological Distance and Innovation Emergence in M&A Through Patent Data with Outlier Detection Methods
1 Introduction
2 Related Work
2.1 Research on M&A and Innovation
2.2 Research on Patented Technology
3 Hypothesis
4 Data
5 Analysis Method
5.1 Calculate Patent Text Vectors
5.2 Calculate Patent Text Vectors
5.3 Calculate the Number of Outliers
6 Result
6.1 Comparison of the Number of Outliers for Each Technological Distance
6.2 Comparison of the Number of Outliers for Each Technological Distance When Classified by Company Size
7 Conclusion
References
Estimated Economic Ripple Effects of Closed-Type Tourism Promotion Measures
1 Introduction
2 Related Work
3 Objectives of Study
4 Methodology
4.1 Questionnaire Survey
4.2 Analysis Method
5 Results
6 Conclusions
References
Intelligent Agents in Health, Wellness and Human Development Environments Applied to Health and Medicine
Analysis of Batch Size in the Assessment of Bone Metastasis from Bone Scans in Various Convolutional Neural Networks
1 Introduction
2 Literature Review
3 Materials and Methods
3.1 Dataset Description
3.2 Pre-processing Steps
3.3 Base Convolutional Neural Network Architecture
3.4 Exploratory Process for Batch Size in the CNN Model Configuration
3.5 Performance Evaluation
4 Results and Discussion
4.1 Performance Evaluation of the Base CNN Model as to Batch Size
4.2 Performance Evaluation of DenseNet121 as to Batch Size
4.3 Performance Evaluation of VGG16 as to Batch Size
4.4 Performance Evaluation of InceptionV3 as to Batch Size
4.5 Performance Evaluation of ResNet50 as to Batch Size
4.6 Assessment of Batch Size of the Base and Pre-trained CNN Models
4.7 Comparative Performance of the Best Base and Best Pre-trained Models
5 Conclusions and Recommendations
References
Exploratory Study of Eye-Tracking Path: A Case Study from Switzerland
1 Introduction
2 Theoretical Background for Eye-Tracking Path Data in Environmental Psychology and Neuroscience
2.1 General Theory Related to Human Movements Tracking of Individuals
2.2 Theoretical Background for Eye-Tracking Movement
3 Eye-Tracking Data Collection and Analysis
3.1 Description of Eye-Tracking Paths Through the Scenes
3.2 Description of Eye-Tracking Paths through the Scenes
3.3 Description of Eye-Tracking Paths through the Scenes
4 Conclusion
References
Patient Monitoring Through Intelligent Agents: A Preliminary Study
1 Introduction
2 Literature Review
3 Related Topics
3.1 Assistive Technology (AT)
3.2 Quality of Care
3.3 Intelligent Agent
4 Proposal
5 Conclusions and Future Work
References
Designing a BCI Platform with Embedded ANN as an Aid for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Diagnosis: A Preliminary Study
1 Introduction
1.1 Background Motivation
1.2 Electroencephalography (EEG)
1.3 Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
1.4 Brain-Computer Interface (BCI)
2 State-of-the-Art and Related Work
3 STM32-Based EEG-BCI System (Proposal)
3.1 Problem Formulation
3.2 System Specifications
3.3 Hardware Architecture
3.4 Firmware Implementation
4 Conclusions and Future Work
References
Education in Software Engineering in the Post-COVID Era
Cultural-Ethical Evaluation in the Launch of AI Education Technologies
1 Introduction
1.1 Research Problem
1.2 Aim and Research Questions
2 Key Challenges
2.1 Non-Identified Definition or AI Ethics
2.2 Disbalance Between Ethics and Culture in AI Research
2.3 Inforgization
3 Limitations of the Audience for the Research
4 Description of C2E Model
4.1 Identification of Ethical Concerns
4.2 Ethical Concerns Through Cultural Dimensions
5 Conclusion
References
An Analytic Hierarchy Process for Student Motivation
1 Introduction
1.1 Problem Found in Course
1.2 Visual
1.3 Auditory
1.4 Tactile Learning
1.5 Verbal
1.6 Direct Experience
1.7 Refractive Learning
1.8 Student Profile Inside Classroom
1.9 Student Feedback
1.10 `Facilitating and Assessing Learning\' Presentations
1.11 Overview
2 Background Study
2.1 Description of Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)
3 Cognitive Map
3.1 Relation Between Mind Map and AHP
4 Case Study
4.1 Background of the Problem
4.2 Result and Discussion
5 Conclusion
References
Training Students as Agile Developers: Team and Role Building Games
1 Introduction
2 Related Works
3 Team Building for Agile Development
4 A Team Building Game for Online Training to Scrum
5 Evaluating Games for Team Building
5.1 Validity Threats
6 Conclusions and Future Works
References
Impact of Covid-19 on Employee Satisfaction and Trust with Focus on Working from Home
1 Introduction
2 Theoretical Background
3 Research Methods and Data Collection
4 Results
5 Discussion
References
An Approach for Organising and Managing an Academic Year Using Online Tools and Techniques
1 Introduction
2 Video and Text Streaming Platforms
2.1 Zoom
2.2 Cisco Webex
2.3 Microsoft Teams
2.4 Google Meet
2.5 Discord
2.6 Comparisons Between the Mentioned Platforms
3 The Main System—Algorithmic Proposal
4 Conclusions
References
Exploring the Impact of COVID-19 on Education: A Study on Challenges and Opportunities in Online Learning
1 Introduction
2 Methodology
3 Results
3.1 Methods for the Continuation of Online Education
3.2 Obstacles for Learning and Teaching
3.3 Opportunities for Teaching and Learning
4 Discussion
5 Conclusion and Future Research
References
Memes as a Memorization Technique in Education
1 Introduction
2 Literature Review
3 Methodology
4 Results
5 Conclusion
References
Quantifying Education in the Post-COVID Era: An Engineering Approach Concept
1 Background
1.1 Problem
1.2 Solution
2 Literature Review
3 Engineering Approach Concept
4 Methodology
5 Conclusions
References
Teaching Object-Oriented Requirements Techniques: An Experiment
1 Introduction
2 Contract-Based OO Requirements
2.1 OO Requirements Fundamentals
2.2 Scenario-Driven OO Requirements
3 Teaching Experiment
3.1 Design
3.2 Results
4 Discussion
4.1 Related Work
4.2 Limitations
4.3 Future Work
5 Conclusion
References
Onlife Education: Beyond Distance Learning by Intelligent Tutoring Systems
1 Introduction
2 Preliminary Concepts
2.1 Background
2.2 Related Work
3 Virtual Study Buddy
3.1 Basic Knowledge Creation Mode
3.2 Training Mode
4 Conclusions
References
A Personal View on Past and Future Higher Education
1 A Brief History of Education
2 Current and Future Education
3 Conclusion
References
Running Regular Research Seminar Online
1 ruSTEP: Over COVID-19 Years and Beyond
2 Selected Contributions on Analysis, Semantics, Specification, and Verification
3 Summary and Concluding Remarks
References
Innopolis University: An Agile and Resilient Academic Institution Navigating the Rocky Waters of the COVID-19 Pandemic
1 The Pilot Card of Innopolis University
2 Innopolis University Sailing into the COVID-19 Storm on the Agile Resiliency
2.1 COVID-19 the Kraken or 2020 Challenge Accepted: Inventory of Life-Saving Appliances and Arrangements
2.2 Suddenly Overboard: Repackaging Pedagogy
2.3 Beyond Access: Leveraging Open Educational Resources to Support Students and Faculty in Emergency Distance Learning
3 Conclusion
References
Teaching the Future: The Vision of AI/ChatGPT in Education
1 Introduction
2 AI in Education
2.1 AI-Powered Virtual Tutor
3 ChatGPT in Education
3.1 An Introduction to ChatGPT
3.2 Applications of ChatGPT in Education
3.3 Potential Benefits of Using ChatGPT in Education
4 Challenges and Concerns
4.1 Ethical and Moral Considerations
4.2 Technical Challenges
4.3 Implementation Considerations
5 Future of AI/ChatGPT in Education
6 Conclusion
References
Thesis Supervision in Computer Science—Challenges and a Gamified Solution
1 Background
2 State of the Art
3 Study Design
3.1 Interview Questions for the Supervisor
3.2 Interview Questions for Supervisees/Students
4 Student’s Feedback and Data
5 Two Dimensional Challenges—Supervisor and Students’ Insights
6 Opportunities for Gamified Thesis Supervision
7 Conclusions
References
Humanizing Zoom: Lessons from Higher Education in Qatar
1 Introduction
2 Literature Review
2.1 Background
2.2 Student Ability to Self-Regulate
2.3 Student Satisfaction
2.4 Student–Teacher Bonding
2.5 Student Motivation
3 Research Methods
3.1 Research Design
3.2 Procedure
3.3 Data Analysis
4 Results
5 Discussion
5.1 Limitations
6 Conclusions
References
Author Index