An approach to Science
research
At Universitat Jaume I
Vicente R. Tomás López
April 2011
Outline
 Introduction
 Universitat Jaume I
• Computer Science degree
 My CV
 AiA research group
 Some projects
• Meteosafety
• NEDPIC
• DEMANAT
• CTSimAgent
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Outline
 Introduction
 Universitat Jaume I
• Computer Science degree
 My CV
 AiA research group
 Some projects
• Meteosafety
• NEDPIC
• DEMANAT
• CTSimAgent
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Universitat Jaume I
 Location: Castellon de la Plana. Spain
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Universitat Jaume I
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Universitat Jaume I
 General data
 Setup: 1991
 Student (2007): 12.163
• New students 2.178. Foreign students: 389
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Teachers (2007) 913.
Administration personal: 582
Universities with agreements: 90
Web address: www.uji.es
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Universitat Jaume I
 Centres Structure
 Faculty of humanities and social sciences
 Faculty of law and economics
 School of technology and experimental
sciences
 25 Departments
 12 Instituts
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Universitat Jaume I
 Degrees
 Faculty of humanities and social sciences
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Degree in Advertising and Public Relations
Degree in Audio-visual Communication
Degree in Humanities
Degree in Psychology
Degree in Psych pedagogy
Degree in Translation and Interpreting
English Philology Degree
Education Diploma
– Early Childhood
– Physical
– Music
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Universitat Jaume I
 Degrees
 Faculty of law and economics
• Degree in Business Administration and
Management
• Degree in Labour Sciences
• Degree in Law (2002 Programme of Study)
• Degree in Security and Police Sciences
• Diploma in Labour Relations (2002 Programme of
Study)
• Diploma in Public Management and Administration
• Diploma in Business Studies
• Diploma in Tourism
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Universitat Jaume I
 School of technology and experimental
sciences
• Degree in Agricultural Technical Engineering:
– Horticulture and Garden Speciality
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Degree in Industrial Engineering
Degree in Chemical Engineering
Degree in Chemistry (2002)
Degree in Computer Science Engineering (2001)
Degree in Industrial Technical Engineering:
– Mechanics Speciality
• Degree in Technical Architecture
• Degree in Technical Engineering
– Computer Management
– Computer Systems
– Industrial Design (1995)
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Universitat Jaume I
 Degree on Computer science
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4 years, 240 credits, 60 credits per year, 30 per semester
40 weeks, 20 per semester
1 EHES credit =25 h. Annual work 1.500 hours.
Subjects 6 credits (final project)
3 itineraries. Degree in Computer Science
• Software engineering.
• Information Systems.
• Information technologies.
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Outline
 Introduction
 Universitat Jaume I
• Computer Science degree
 My CV
 AiA research group
 Some projects
• Meteosafety
• NEDPIC
• DEMANAT
• CTSimAgent
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My CV
 Degree in Computer Science
• Polytechnic University of Valencia (1998 )
 Ph.D. in Computer Science Engineering
• University Valencia (2006)
 Current position
• Lecturer (Profesor contratado Doctor) at
Universitat Jaume I
• Member of AiA research group
• Member of LISITT research group (UV)
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My CV
 Academic activity
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2001
2002
2003
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2006
U. València
Scholarship
2007
2008
2009
2010
U. Jaume I
Assitant
Computer techniques (lab)
Advanced
management
of CS
Computer
Sience
Ayudante LOU
Data and
information
Structures
Colaborador
Profesor contratado doctor
Computer scence Projects
Files &
Databases
External Practices
Databases
Intelligent Agents
Introduction to computer sciene
DataBase design and management
Traffic management and control
No Computer Science Degrees
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Computer Science Degrees
My CV
 Research areas
 Intelligent Agents
• Develop of MAS
• Automatic negotiation
 Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS)
• Traffic management
– Advanced Traffic Management Systems (ATMS)
– Decision Support Systems
• V2X - I2X Systems
• Traffic Simulators
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My CV
 Journal contributions
 A multi-agent system for managing adverse weather
situations on the road network
• Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering. IOS Press. 2010
• JCR Impact Factor 2009: 2,042. Position 34/102
 Visualization of ontologies to specify semantic
descriptions of services
• IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.
IEEE 2008.
• JCR Impact Factor 2008 2,236. Position 24/102
 Other journals
• LNCS: 2 papers in the publication year
• No indexed: 16
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My CV
 Congresses contributions
 A Rule-based Multi-agent System for Road Traffic
Management
• 2009 IEEE / WIC / ACM International Conferences on Web
Intelligence (WI'09) and Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'09).
 An Ontological Infrastructure for Traveller Information
Systems.
• The 9th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent
Transportation Systems. 2006
 A cooperative multiagent system for traffic management
and control
• V International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and
Multiagent Systems AAMAS05.
 Other congresses
 Indexed by Core, Dblp, Citesser: 6
 Non indexed: 46
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My CV
 Project and contracts participation
 METEOSAFETY: Study to reduce accidents in case of adverse weather
situations
• Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
 Knowledge Model and management to support products design
• Bancaja - UJI
 ADVANCED ROAD TELEMATICS IN THE SOUTH-WEST ARTS 1,2 Y
3 Y TEMPO. 2001-2006
 SOUTH EUROPEAN ROAD TELEMATICS IMPLEMENTATION SERTI
 CARPLUS (integration of CARpooling among the Union citieS)
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C.E.E.
 Computer Aided Theatrical Score – CATS. ESPRIT Project 20340
• C.E.E
 VERA. Video Enforcement for Road Authorities
• C.E.E
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My CV
 Project and contracts participation
 Support to develop EASYWAY program (UE)
• Dirección General Tráfico
 Collaboration between UJI and UV to develop activities in the frame of
EasyWay
• University of Valencia
 Framework to develop technical support on ITS.
• Dirección General de Tráfico
 Collaboration and supporting actions for the Servei Catala de Transit
• Servei Català de Transit
 Traffic study and development of a telematic control access system for
Bilbao city.
• Traffic Basque Administration
 Traffic and road Safety study
• Traffic Basque Administration
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Outline
 Introduction
 Universitat Jaume I
• Computer Science degree
 My CV
 AiA research group
 Some projects
• Meteosafety
• NEDPIC
• DEMANAT
• CTSimAgent
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Applying Intelligent Agents (AiA)
 Applying Intelligent Agents (AiA)
 Main research lines
• Theoretical aspects of coordination and negotiation in MAS
• Development of MAS for traffic management and control
– Identifying, monitoring and management of incidences
– Implementation of automatic negotiation in incidences actuation
protocols
– Traffic forecast
• Multiagent model of process and biomolecular systems
• Knowledge management (identification, store, recover, …)
 Members
• 7 members
• Currently, 3 visitants members
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Applying Intelligent Agents (AiA)
 Collaborations with other universities
 LISITT (University of Valencia)
• ESAM Technology (Spin off)
 Czech Technical University of Prague (CVUT)
• Laboratory of Telematics. Department of Control Engineering
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University College of Dublin
University Polytechnica of Bucarest
Universidade Federal de Sergipe (Brasil)
University of Bucaramanga (Colombia)
University of West Bohemia
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Outline
 Introduction
 Universitat Jaume I
• Computer Science degree
 My CV
 AiA research group
 Some projects
• Meteosafety
• NEDPIC
• DEMANAT
• CTMSimAgent
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Some projects
 Meteosafety
 Objective
• To optimize the efficiency of detector/actuators to
improve road safety in adverse weather situations.
Theoric
studies
Applied
research
Prototypes
Status of the
ART
Accidentally
and meteo
Recommendations for
meteo stations
Risk situation
prognosis
DSS
DSS Prototype
RDS-TMC
Prototype
Pilot test
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Some projects
 Meteosafety
 Two levels of intelligence
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Some projects
Meteosafety
 Local system
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Meteo station
URS
VMS and/or RDS
One or more DCS
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Some projects
 Meteosafety
 MAS architecture
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Some projects
 NEDPIC: Distributed multi-agent negotiation
model for the intelligent parking trucks.
 Objective
• To study and specify an integral model for the
intelligent truck parking management.
• It takes into account the constraints:
– Drivers
– Routes and rest areas
– Dangerous goods
• It will establish criteria for collective optimization and
traffic management.
• To improve both the individual and collective
management of parking areas.
 Collaboration between UJI and UV
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Some projects
 NEDPIC: two subprojects
 New methodology for the definition of ontologies
recommendations (W3C, OWL 2)
• A new ontological description of the actors involved in
the ITP management will be created
 An innovative multi-agent system to support the
development of ITP management strategies
• Compatible with the current V2V and V2I
communication architectures.
• A new negotiation protocol will be created
– based on fuzzy decision algorithms and dynamic
prioritization criteria for each scenario (individual, section, or
network)
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Some projects
 DEMANAT. A MAS environment for
automated negotiation in traffic.
 Objectives
• A new automated negotiation protocol to support
the management of no urban incidences
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Some projects
 CTMSimAgent: Using Agents to improve
Traffic simulators
 Collaboration between UJI and UWB
 Objective
• Improve the Meteosafety MAS with a traffic
forecast agent.
• Real time and off line
 Request
• Good and Open source traffic simulator
 1st approach
• CTSIM simulator
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Some projects
 CTMSimAgent
 Based on Cell Transmission Model (CTM)
 Advantages
• It takes about a minute to simulate one day’s operation
of a freeway.
• Open source
• Good results
 Disadvantages
• Needs Matlab
• Only simulates a single freeway (with various on-ramps
and off-ramps)  i.e. the simulation for a road network
is not supported.
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Some projects
 CTMSimAgent
 Implementation
• Java
• Jade MAS platform
 Agent
• It controls CTMSim and Matlab with a wrapping Mscript
• It uses JMatIO for work with Matlab files
• The whole simulation process (input, process and
results) are in the agent
• It is quite simple and independent
• The input parameters could be provided by
meteosafety agents
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Some projects
 CTMSimAgent: Testing the agents.
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Some projects
 CTMSimAgent
 Simulations
1. R1 normal traffic, R2 normal traffic
2. R1 high traffic, R2 normal traffic
3. R1 normal traffic, R2 normal traffic
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Increase of 20% in off-ramp p1
4. R1 hight traffic, R2 normal traffic
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Increase of 40% in off-ramp
5. R1 hight traffic, R2 normal traffic
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Increase of 40% in off-ramp P1
Increase of 40% in on ramp P2
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Some projects
 CTMSimAgent
 Results are positives
• Traffic simulation results are similar to AIMSUM
simulator results.
• Using CTMSimAgents a road network could be
simulated
• It could be integrated in other MAS platforms, like
Meteosafety
 A paper for a conference/journal is being
prepared.
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Thank’s
for you attention
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