Agent Technology for Intelligent Mobile Services and Smart Societies: Workshop on Collaborative Agents, Research and Development, CARE 2014, and Workshop on Agents, Virtual Societies and Analytics, AVSA 2014, Held as Part of AAMAS 2014, Paris, France, May

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by  Fernando Koch, Felipe Meneguzzi, Kiran Lakkaraju (eds.)

Fernando Koch
Felipe Meneguzzi
Kiran Lakkaraju (Eds.)
Communications in Computer and Information Science 498
Agent Technology
for Intelligent Mobile Services
and Smart Societies
Workshop on Collaborative Agents,
Research and Development, CARE 2014
and Workshop on Agents, Virtual Societies
and Analytics, AVSA 2014, Held as Part of AAMAS 2014
Paris, France, May 5–9, 2014, Revised Selected Papers
123
Communications
in Computer and Information Science 498
EditorialBoard
SimoneDinizJunqueiraBarbosa
PonticalCatholicUniversityofRiodeJaneiro(PUC-Rio),
RiodeJaneiro,Brazil
PhoebeChen
LaTrobeUniversity,Melbourne,Australia
AlfredoCuzzocrea
ICAR-CNRandUniversityofCalabria,Italy
XiaoyongDu
RenminUniversityofChina,Beijing,China
JoaquimFilipe
PolytechnicInstituteofSetúbal,Portugal
OrhunKara
TÜBITAKBILGEMandMiddleEastTechnicalUniversity,Turkey
IgorKotenko
St.PetersburgInstituteforInformaticsandAutomation
oftheRussianAcademyofSciences,Russia
KrishnaM.Sivalingam
IndianInstituteofTechnologyMadras,India
DominikS´le˛zak
UniversityofWarsawandInfobright,Poland
TakashiWashio
OsakaUniversity,Japan
XiaokangYang
ShanghaiJiaoTongUniversity,China
Fernando Koch Felipe Meneguzzi
Kiran Lakkaraju (Eds.)
Agent Technology
for Intelligent Mobile Services
and Smart Societies
Workshop on CollaborativeAgents,
Research and Development, CARE 2014
and Workshop onAgents,Virtual Societies
andAnalytics,AVSA 2014
Held as Part ofAAMAS 2014
Paris, France, May 5-9, 2014
Revised Selected Papers
1 3
VolumeEditors
FernandoKoch
SamsungResearchInstitute
Campinas,SP,Brazil
E-mail:[email protected]
FelipeMeneguzzi
PontificalCatholicUniversity
ofRioGrandedoSul
PortoAlegre,RS,Brazil
E-mail:[email protected]
KiranLakkaraju
SandiaNationalLaboratories
Albuquerque,NM,USA
E-mail:[email protected]
ISSN1865-0929 e-ISSN1865-0937
ISBN978-3-662-46240-9 e-ISBN978-3-662-46241-6
DOI10.1007/978-3-662-46241-6
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Preface
This volume comprises the joint proceedings of two workshops that took place
in conjunction with the 13th International Autonomous Agents and Multiagent
Systems (AAMAS) Conference: the Collaborative Agents – Research and De-
velopment (CARE 2014)1 workshop and the Agents, Virtual Societies and An-
alytics (AVSA 2014)2 workshop. Both workshops are international workshops
hosted in conjunction with the 13th International Conference on Autonomous
Agents and MultiagentSystems (AAMAS 2014),in Paris,France. The common
ground between the two exists in the intersection between a top-down experi-
mental approach and a bottom-up interaction analysis. We present a cohesive
discussion by selecting a handful of representative papers from the events. The
main topics in these workshops were: computational social sciences, smart soci-
eties, social applications, urban intelligence, intelligent mobile services, mobile
service environment, and context intelligence.
These workshops shared an interest in new models of communication and
interaction. The research leads to innovative technologies that allow for intel-
ligence application, collaborative services, and methods to better understand
society, interactions, and problems.
The thematic focus of CARE 2014 was “CARE for Intelligent Mobile Ser-
vice.” The thematic developed around the dream of intelligent mobile services
thatassistpeopleduringtheirday-to-dayactivitiesinhomes,offices,andhealth-
carefacilities iscompelling.Relevantquestionsforthisworkshopwere:Howcan
we create computational models, representations, algorithms and protocols to
enable the next generation of intelligent mobile services? What are the new
challenges when service computing becomes mobile? What new functionalities
and effectiveness can make use of collaborative models in mobile services? The
CARE2014workshopreceived28paperssubmittedthroughthe workshopweb-
site, from which we selected nine papers for publication, all being republished
as extended versions in this volume.
The AVSA workshop focused on virtual worlds – a rich, engaging domain
through which humans can connect, fight, communicate, make social groups,
and live, such as in the real world. The discussion revolved around the view of
virtual worlds as a laboratory for the real world and alternative windows onto
humaninteraction.Theworkshopselectedsixpapersforpublication,fromwhich
we selected one paper for this volume.
Submissions came from diverse countries in the Americas (Brazil, USA,
Canada,others),Europe(The Netherlands,Spain, Germany,others),Australia,
New Zealand, and others.
1 http://www.care-workshops.org/care2014
2 https://sites.google.com/site/aamasavsa2014
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We selected ten papers as representative contributions for this volume. The
selections are detailed below, highlighting their relationand contribution to the
domain of knowledge in the scope of the workshop.
In the first paper, “Urbosenti: An Ubiquitous Service-Oriented Architecture
for Urban Sensing,” Rolim et al. propose a sensing architecture for urban envi-
ronments.Theplatformprovidesthemechanismsformulti-modaldatacollection
andthedevelopmentofnewsensors.Theresearchaimstousehumansaspartof
thesensorprocessinordertopromotehuman–machinecollaborationandsuper-
vised learning. The significance relates to technologies for collaborative services
to support issues in urban intelligence and smart city scenarios.
In the second paper, “Geo-fencing-Based Disaster Management Service,”
Szczytowskifocusesonenhancedcommunicationindisasterscenarios.Thechal-
lengesintheprocessofsharingsocialmediainformationrelatedtounstructured,
unreliable, and dispersed data are described. The paper proposes an approach
based on combining a geo-fencing technology with a social network platform to
address the issue. The approach helps foster collaboration of agents that are
bothlikelytobe affectedbyadisaster,butalsointhebestpositiontodealwith
andcollaborateonsolvingthelocalproblem.Thus,geofencesbecomeafilterfor
the“noise”oftenassociatedwithsocialnetworkcommunication.Theillustrative
scenariosfocus on disaster managementand “virtual fences” focus onanalyzing
social behavior toward local problems.
This development is significant in supporting innovative technologies that
allow for intelligence application and collaborative services. In addition to the
contribution to intelligent recommendation systems, it promotes the creationof
customizedvirtualworlds.Thisenvironmentwouldbeuseful asalaboratoryfor
the real disaster situation scenarios.
In the third paper, “Knowledge-Level Integration for JaCaMo,” Freitas et
al. propose an ontology to integrate the formalisms underlying agent-basedsys-
tems.Itprovidesamechanismwithwhichtobridgethegapbetweenontological
knowledge bases and agent programming primitives, obviating the need to con-
vertmultipleknowledgerepresentationsintotheagentprogrammingframework.
Byallowingmultipleontologicalknowledgebasestobeintegratedandaccessible
toagentprograms,theprocessofmakinginferencesusingmuchknowledgecom-
monlyavailableovertheInternetshouldfacilitatethe achievementofacommon
view of the world by multiple agents. This proposal facilitates the development
of applications that operate in complex scenarios, making use of knowledge in-
telligence to counter-balance the demand for elaborated business rules.
This development is significant in supporting the integration of data struc-
tures for the composition of intelligent recommendation systems in dynamic
scenarios, such as mobile services and ambient intelligence. The work presents
an illustrative scenario applying agent-based technology to monitor senior pa-
tients. Thesolutionhighlightsthe contributionofthe technologytoarealworld
scenario.
Intheforthpaper,“VIRTUAL-ME:ALibraryforSmartAutonomousAgents
in Multiple Virtual Environments,” Castano et al. present a programming tool
Preface VII
useful to the development of smart agents that can emulate human behavior.
This development is essential for creating models able to predict the evolution
ofsocialsettings andfor the developmentofcomputationalsocialsciences. This
development contributes with mechanisms of data and action representation
of virtual worlds in specific problem domains, useful as a laboratory for the
elaboration of solutions around complex reaction strategies.
In the fifth paper, “Shared Message Boards for Smart Enterprises,” Shigeno
et al. present an innovative form of social connectedness based on a mecha-
nism to allow message exchange between communities. The outcome leads to
a dataset of relevant research data to understand interpersonal interactions in
closedcommunities.Thisinformationcanbeusedtounderstandsocialbehavior
andnetworking.Thepaperpresentsafieldtrialinalargecorporation–aformof
closeenvironmentcommunity–andanalyzesthe patternsarounduseradoption
and individual and group behavior.
In the sixth paper, “On Improving Route Choice Through Learning Au-
tomata”by Ramos et al. the focus is on enabling drivers to make better route
choices through intelligent agents that learn from previous routes. These in-
telligent automata can learn from previous routes and share information, thus
allowing better route planning and decreasing congestion on already burdened
transportation networks.
Asinthe firstandsecondpapers,this developmentsupportstechnologiesfor
collaborativeservicesinissuesofurbanintelligence,inthiscaserelatedtosmart
traffic.Inadditionto thecontributiontointelligentrecommendationsystems,it
promotes the creation of virtual laboratories for experimentation and analysis.
This is useful to simulate complex scenarios and experiment with elaborated
techniques of coordination.
Intheseventhpaper,“UrbanContextDetectionandContext-AwareRecom-
mendationviaNetworksofHumansasSensors,”Alvarez-Napagaoetal.propose
a mechanism to infer problems that occur in everyday life by taking advantage
ofthegeolocatedpositioningcomingfrommessagepostingsononlinesocialnet-
works.Theproposalwouldallowcityplanners–andthepopulationatlarge–to
leveragethecombinedsensingabilityofotherstobetterunderstandtheirworld.
In the eighth paper, “Mining Social Interaction Data in Virtual Worlds,”
Shah and Sukthankar present techniques for inferring the existence of social
linksfromunstructuredconversationaldatacollectedfromgroupsofparticipants
in gaming-related virtual worlds. This information can be used to understand
social behavior and support innovative technologies that allow for intelligence
application and collaborative services and “social labs” in virtual worlds.
Inthe ninthpaper, “AMulti-AgentArchitectureto SupportUbiquitous Ap-
plications in Smart Environments,” Maciel et al. proposes a middleware archi-
tecture to support the development of applications that can integrate multiple
emergingtechnologiessuchassensornetworks,socialnetworks,cloudcomputing,
anddigitalecosystems.Relatedtothefirstpaper,theproposalcontributestoin-
novationincollaborativeservicesforsmartsocieties,providingtheinfrastructure
for data collection and analyzing social phenomena in urban environments.
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Finally, in the tenth paper, “Caring for My Neighborhood: A Platform for
Geocoding Budget for Public Oversight,” Craveiro et al. devise a method to
promote citizen engagement through a better visualization of public budget ex-
penditures. This is a significant contribution to social connectedness in smart
societiesandapracticalapplicationoftechnologytounderstandthemacro-level
activities that influence the social phenomena in urban spaces.
Wemustthankallthevolunteerswhomadetheworkshopspossiblebyhelping
to organize and by peer reviewing the submissions.
December 2014 Fernando Koch
Felipe Meneguzzi
Kiran Lakkaraju
Organization
CARE 2014
General Chairs
Fernando Koch SAMSUNG Research Institute, Brazil
Felipe Meneguzzi Pontificia Universidade Catolica
do Rio Grande do Sul (PUC-RS), Brazil
Steering Committee
Christian Guttmann IBM Research, Australia
Frank Dignum Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Michael Luck King’s College, London University, UK
Program Committee
Sherif Abdallah British University, UK
Priscilla Avegliano IBM Research, Brazil
Sergio Borger IBM Research, Brazil
Carlos Cardonha IBM Research, Brazil
Frank Dignum Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Andrew Koster SAMSUNG Research Institute, Brazil
Michael Luck King’s College London, UK
David Morley SRI International, USA
Sascha Ossowski Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain
Fabio Piva SAMSUNG Research Institute, Brazil
Jan Richter IBM Research, Australia
Onn Shehory IBM Research, Australia
Kent Steer IBM Research
Ingo J. Timm University of Trier, Germany
M. Birna Van Riemsdijk TU Delft, The Netherlands
Neil Yorke-Smith American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Wayne Wobcke University of New South Wales, Australia
AVSA 2014
General Chair
Kiran Lakkaraju Sandia National Labs, USA
Organizing Committee
Gita Sukthankar University of Central Florida, USA
Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad University of Minnesota, USA
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Program Committee
Christian Bauckhage University of Bonn, Germany
Frank Dignum Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Mohamed Elidrisi University of Minnesota, USA
Jina Lee Sandia National Labs, USA
Winter Mason Facebook, USA
Il-Chul Moon KAIST, South Korea
Jon Whetzel Sandia National Labs, USA
Amogh Mahapatra University of Minnesota, USA