Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence and Distributed Systems
Sara Rodríguez1, Juan F. De Paz1, Javier Bajo2, Fernando de la Prieta1 and Juan M. Corchado1
1Departamento de Informática y Automática, Universidad de Salamanca, Plaza de la Merced s/n, 37008, Salamanca, Spain
2Departamento de Inteligencia Artificial, Facultad de Informática, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Campus Montegancedo, Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, 28660
Corresponding Author: Sara Rodríguez [[email protected]]
ABSTRACT
This paper presents a brief summary of the post-proceedings of the International Symposium on Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence (DCAI 2014) and the Workshop in Intelli- gent Human-Agent Societies (WIHAS) held in Salamanca in June from 4th to 6th, 2014.
Keywords: artificial intelligence, distributed computing, multiagent systems
INTRODUCTION
This paper presents a brief summary of the post-proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence (DCAI 2014) and the Workshop in Intelligent Human- Agent Societies (WIHAS ) held in Salamanca in June from 4th to 6th 2014 within the 12th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (PAAMS'14). The artificial intelli- gence is changing our society. Its application in distributed environments, such as the Internet, elec- tronic commerce, mobile communications, wireless devices, distributed computing, and so on is in- creasing and is becoming an element of high added value and economic potential, both industrial and research. These technologies are changing constantly as a result of the large research and technical effort being undertaken in both universities and businesses. The International Symposium on Distri- buted Computing and Artificial Intelligence (DCAI) is an annual forum that will bring together ideas, projects, lessons, etc. associated with distributed computing and artificial intelligence, and their appli- cation in different areas.
The symposium is organized by the Bioinformatics, Intelligent System and Educational Technology Research Group (http://bisite.usal.es/) of the University of Salamanca. It is an international forum to present and discuss the latest scientific developments and their effective applications, to assess the impact of the approach, and to facilitate technology transfer, has become a necessity.The exchange of ideas between scientists and technicians from both academic and business areas is essential to facilitate the development of systems that meet the demands of today's society. This volume includes a selection of the best papers presented in the symposium, focusing on distributed computing, artifi- cial intelligence and its applications.
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International Symposium on Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence Details
This special issue presents a selection of the best papers selected from those that were accepted on the symposium focused on image processing and robotics. These articles capture the most innovative results and trends in this sense: Artificial Intelligent Applications: Software in Ubiquitous and Distrib- uted Computing; Agent technologies for Ambient Intelligence; Image reconstruction; Mathematics of visualization; Biomedical imaging: Applications of Imaging in sciences; Technologies for Production Systems; Mobile computation and mobile Communications. This year’s technical program will present both high quality and diversity, with contributions in well-established and evolving areas of research.
Specifically, 75 papers were submitted from over 21 different countries (Algeria, Brazil, China, Croa- tia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Korea, Spain, Taiwan, Tunisia, Ukraine, United Kingdom), representing a truly
“wide area network” of research activity. The DCAI’14 technical program selected 64 papers and from these 64 papers accepted and presented in symposium, 6 were selected for this special issue:
In the first paper, Billhardt et al. show how nowadays more and more systems of such kind rely on a seamless interaction of software agents with humans. Humans work in partnership or closely related with agents that are able to act autonomously and intelligently. Specifically, humans and agents have the ability to establish a series of relationships/collaborative interactions with each other, forming what might be called human-agent teams to meet their individual or collective goals within an organisation or social structure. Based on a real-world case study, they analyse the open issues that should be addressed by researches in order to develop such systems.
Carneiro et al., in the second paper, propose a model that allows a Group Decision Support Systems to measure the participant’s satisfaction with the decision, considering aspects such as problem evaluation, personality, emotions and expectations. To create the model some assumptions are de- ducted from literature, as well as the premises needed to validate any decision satisfaction model.
This model is intended to enable the understanding of the decision’s quality achieved with an argu- mentation system and to evaluate its capability to potentiate the decision’s quality. The proposed model validates all the assumptions found in the literature regarding the participant’s satisfaction.
In the third paper, Román et al. show that the measure of specialization in an organization is an im- portant factor to consider in order to determine the type of the organization according to the tasks or processes that each component performs. According to the philosophy of business networks, and taking as an example their collaboration model, they can assimilate an organization model in artificial systems which collaborate with each other and thus achieve its objectives.
In the fourth paper, De la Iglesia et al. proposes to use mobile devices in combination with large data- bases of pollen in a region to track the health status of the patient and relate the detected levels of pollen to obtain possible relationships that result in the diagnosis of the user. They show how the mo- bile devices have become an essential item for many people in developed countries. Thanks to small software called apps, it is possible use these devices for a lot of tasks.
In the fifth paper, Sanchís et al. presents a solution for the problem of human immersion presented in Human-Agent Societies, providing the use of natural interfaces for the interaction among humans and software agents. Moreover, it is showed how the system may use some learning techniques, as Case Based-Reasoning, to adapt its behaviour to the human requirement, improving in this way human immersion in the system.
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Ramos et al., in the last paper, illustrate the current progresses at the intersection of computer sci- ence and health care. Assistive technologies, as an application of scientific knowledge, aim to help users with their diminished capacities and, usually, imply a small adaptation from individuals so that they can use the devices that convey assistive functionalities. One of the most commonly diminished capabilities is that of spatial orientation. In order to overcome this drawback, the work presented herein features a framework of Speculative Computation to set up the computation of the next step of a user using default values. The consequence of the application of the framework is a faster reaction to user stimuli, which may result in issuing warnings when he is likely to choose the wrong direction
Special Issue Acknowledgements
We would like to thank all the contributing authors, as well as the members of the Program Committee and the Organizing Committee for their hard and highly valuable work. Their work has helped to con- tribute to the success of this symposium. Finally, the Guest Editors wish to thank Professors Radu- Emil Precup and Tanuja Srivastava (Editors-in-Chief of International Journal of Artificial Intelligence) for the publication of this special issue that notably contributes to improve the quality of the workshop and the iHAS project associated. We hope the reader will share our joy and find this special issue very useful.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
This work has been carried out by the project Sociedades Humano-Agente: Inmersion, Adaptacion y Simulacion (iHAS). TIN2012-36586-C03-03. Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (Spain). Fon- dos Feder.
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