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Indicator suggestionsCircles of Sustainability

1. The Application 2. Agent-oriented and GORITE 3. Agent architecture

4. Dummy Project 5. Demonstration

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The Application

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General Diagram of the application architecture

Reminder : Use Case 3

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The Application

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Use Case 3: Selection of Indicators

1. What existing proto-indicators are already captured that relate to the critical issues.

2. Browse knowledge-base of all indicators for indicators that relate to the critical issues.

3. Identify any required new indicators that relate to critical issues and add indicator to knowledge-base.

4. For each critical issue choose indicators from candidates (includes selecting parameters, weighting importance/relevance, targets).

5. Check/test/warn that all domains and all critical issues are covered by at least one indicator .

From the project Wiki

Agent-Oriented & GORITE

Agent System

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Agent System

Percept / Action

GORITE

Goals / Plans

Beliefsets

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Group of agents, group of reasoning entities interacting with their environment.

Opposite: external environment.

1 thread, multiple processes

1 Agent System per project

Agent-Oriented & GORITE

Percepts / Actions

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Agent System

Percept / Action

GORITE

Goals / Plans

Beliefsets

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Percept: the elements external to the Agent System, which it is able to perceive.

Representation of a percept in PDT

Action: the elements that the Agent System perform on its external environment.

Representation of an action in PDT

Agent-Oriented & GORITE

GORITE

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Agent System

Percept / Action

GORITE

Goals / Plans

Beliefsets

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GORITE, or Goal Oriented Teams: library written in Java language.

Created in RMIT.

Framework supporting Agent-Oriented development.

Includes a graphical design tool generating code structure.

Agent-Oriented & GORITE

Goals / Plans

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Agent System

Percept / Action

GORITE

Goals / Plans

Beliefsets

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Goal: an intention that an Agent has. Plan: predefined sequence of actions performed by an

Agent to achieve a goal.

In GORITE: BDI Goal: generates new intentions, triggering others

goals. Sequence Goal: succeed if all its sub-goals succeed. Condition Goal: succeed if any of its sub-goals succeed. Task Goal: equivalent of a plan. Actual sequence of

actions.Representation of a plan in PDT

Agent-Oriented & GORITE

Beliefsets

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Agent System

Percept / Action

GORITE

Goals / Plans

Beliefsets

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Internal data maintained by an Agent about what it believes.

Beliefsets are used to reason.

Representation of a belief in PDT

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Agent Architecture

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Agent Interface

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Agent Architecture

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Agent Interface

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Agent Architecture

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PDT Design

Agent System

Percepts

Actions

Actions

Agent

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Agent Architecture

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PDT Design“Details Specifications” Agent

Use Case 2

Use Case 4

Use Case 3

Use Case 3

Use Case 3

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Agent Architecture

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PDT Design

“Select Candidates indicators” Capability

“Provide Indicator Suggestions” Capability

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Agent Architecture

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PDT Design

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Dummy Project

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Water Crisis:Description: Water crisis is a term used to refer to the world’s water resources relative to human demand. The term has been applied to the worldwide water situation by the United Nations and other world organizations. General Issue: Overall scarcity of usable water and water pollution.

Normative Goal: Have enough water for everybody and reduce water pollution.

Critical Issues: Inadequate access to drinking water Inadequate access to water for sanitation Groundwater over-drafting Overuse and pollution of Water:

o Water Overuseo Water Pollutiono Harming biodiversity

Conflict for water

Source: Wikipedia – article “Water Crisis”

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Dummy Knowledge Base

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Rain Amount: Average amount of rain (in mm) this year.Ecology > Earth, Water and Air

Bushfires: Number of important bushfires (more than 1000ha burnt) this year.Ecology > OtherTarget: 1

Water supply: The total water supply of the territory (in m3).Ecology > Earth, Water and Air

Water Consumption / Person: The water consumption this year (in m3).Economy > Consumption and Leisure

Number of Dams: The number of dams in the region.Ecology > Building and Infrastructure

Number of crimes: The number of crimes recorded by police last year.Politic > Conflict and Insecurity

Demonstration

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