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Several international R&D
projects, from different financing European frameworks (IST, ACTS,
…), have been based on JADE.
In some of them Telecom Italia had an active participation, but in most
cases JADE was chosen simply for its effectiveness and ease of use.
Amongst all of these, the LEAP project deserves a special mention.
During the 2000 – 2002 time span, thanks to the valuable contribution of the Consortium partners - Motorola (coordinator), ADAC, Broadcom, BT, Telecom Italia, University of Parma, Siemens – the project accomplished the relevant goal of developing a new lightweight runtime environment for JADE that can be both exploited in the Internet and in the wireless context. The LEAP extension allows the deployment of JADE on J2ME devices, and open the doors for mobile applications based on the P2P intelligent agent approach.
The LEAP extension has been fully integrated in last JADE release, 3.01b, and the collaboration between Motorola and Telecom Italia led to the creation of the JADE Governing Board aimed at the success of our platform.
Hereafter the list of the other
European R&D projects that have used, or are using, JADE.
We welcome more project descriptions to be added
here, please send an e-mail to
AgentCities
Timeframe:
2001-2003
Participants:
~100 companies & universities
Goal:
Agentcities is an initiative to create a next generation Internet that
is based upon a worldwide network of services that use the metaphor of
a real or a virtual city to cluster services. These services, ranging
from eCommerce to integrating business processes into a virtual
organization, can be accessed across the Internet, and have an explicit
representation of the capabilities that they offer. The ultimate aim is
to enable the dynamic, intelligent and autonomous composition of
services to achieve user and business goals, thereby creating compound
services to address changing needs. This is in direct contrast with the
current Internet, where users have to interact directly and constantly
with software, that is, Web browsers, to achieve their goals and fulfil
their requirements. The initiative will build on a wealth of innovative
technologies including agent technology, Semantic Web technologies,
UDDI discovery services, eBusiness standards and Grid Computing.
Application areas already envisaged range from eHealth and eLearning to
manufacturing control, digital libraries, travel and entertainment
services.
TeSCHeT
Timeframe:
2002-2005
Participants:
Telecom Italia, Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A, Isufi
Goal:
The project intends to study and develop a platform-demonstrator,
characterized by "open source" standards and technologies, and based on
the JADE platform, enabling the treatment and the organization of the
tourist-cultural information and the creation of spontaneous services
networks
The demonstrator-platform will provide remarkable advantages in communication and use, creating an information exchange network, which will enable more interaction among those who will operate inside this system: tourists, museums, public administrations or commercial and service agents. At the same time, it twill enable the user to easily access platform services through an applicative on PC or through mobile wireless devices.
PRIMO
Timeframe:
2002-2005
Participants:
CERCOM - POLITECNICO DI TORINO, DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION ENGINEERING
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PISA, DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION ENGINEERING OF THE
UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA, ISTITUTO SUPERIORE MARIO BOELLA, DEPARTMENT OF
SCIENCE AND TECHNIQUE OF COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION (INFOCOM) OF
THE UNIVERSITY OF ROMA "LA SAPIENZA", DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONIC
ENGINEERING AND INFORMATION (DIEI) OF THE UNIVERSITÀ OF
PERUGIA, DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRIC ENGINNERING (DIE) OF THE UNIVERSITY OF
PALERMO¸ DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRIC ENGINNERING (DIE) OF THE
UNIVERSITY OF ROMA “TOR VERGATA”,
STMICROELECTRONICS, TELECOM ITALIA LAB, MARCONI SELENIA COMMUNICATIONS
Goal:
The PRIMO project deals with the design, the development, and the
experimental validation of base stations and user terminals for
wideband wireless communications systems able to cope with those
reconfigurability and interoperability characteristics required by the
next generation mobile communication systems.
In the framework of one of the Work Package of PRIMO (WP6), University
of Roma Tor Vergata, Telecom Italia Lab and University of Perugia are
defining a so-called Ubiquitous Personalized Environment (UPE). The aim
of UPE is to develop and evaluate a series of tools, techniques and
architectures enabling users to customize and use devices and services
with minimal effort. This implies the need of i) providing automatic
customization of user access to services and the network; ii)
automatically adapting services to terminal characteristics and user
preferences; iii) orchestrating network capabilities. UPE is heavily
based on distributed applications and a Mobile Agent technology could
be useful to implement the UPE System, enabling computing agents to
migrate from VASPs domain to Terminal Devices (PC, Laptop, PDA,
SmartPhone, etc.) and to locally execute service processes. UPE builds
on JADE, used as middleware providing a platform for service
deployment, advertisement, personalization, etc. The JADE middleware
level provides adaptation capabilities to the considered context
(location, time, etc) and eventually an orchestration of events,
managing also simultaneous access of several users to the same
resources-services
IMAGE
Timeframe:
2000-2002
Participants:
CENTRO STUDI SUI SISTEMI DI TRASPORTO SPA ITALY , MOBISOFT OY FINLAND,
3C SYSTEMS OY FINLAND, UNICOM CONSULTING OY FINLAND,
5T S.C.R.L. ITALY, PTV PLANUNG TRANSPORT VERKEHR AG GERMANY, SINGULAR
SOFTWARE A.E. GREECE, TAMPEREEN KANPUNGING LIIKENNELAITOS (TAMPERE CITY
TRANSPORT) FINLAND, INTRACOM S.A. HELLENIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND
ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY GREECE, THE UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
UNITED KINGDOM, TRANSEUROPEAN CONSULTING UNIT OF THESSALONIKI S.A.
GREECE, MIZAR MEDIASERVICE S.R.L. ITALY, PERSONAL MEDIA SYSTEMS FINLAND
OY FINLAND, MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATIONS FINLAND FINLAND
Goal:
Singular Sw used JADE in the context of
the IST project "Intelligent Mobility Agent for Complex Geographic
Environments" (Image, IST-2000-30047). Using agent technology and JADE,
we integrated existing georeference services (i.e. routing, mapping,
proximity search, geo-coding, GPS tracking), content providing services
(lists of points of interest, e.g. restaurants, hotels, etc),
introduced the personalization feature and self-learning ability, and,
finally, the interoperability feature, in order to provide the modern
mobile user (be he commuter, business traveller or tourist) with
personalized location-based global M-services.
Pellucid
Timeframe:
2002-2004
Participants:
CCLRC, SADIEL, MMBG, CYFRONET, II SAS, DOFTECO, C.Pres. Junta de
Andalucia, Comune di Genova
Goal:
To develop a flexible and adaptable platform to assist organisationally
mobile employees at middle and higher levels of public sector
organisations. Organisational mobility, in which employees move from
one department or unit to another, is becoming increasingly common, and
brings its own problems and opportunities. The Pellucid platform is a
multi-layer, agent-based system, based on JADE to aid these employees
in acquiring, reusing and sharing knowledge and experience, benefiting
both them and the effectiveness and efficiency of the organisation. The
platform will use and integrate other technologies a part of JADE, such
as organisational memory; workflow and process modelling; and metadata
for accessing document repositories.
Knowledge
on Demand
Timeframe:
2000-2003
Participants:
CERTH-ITI, Greece; FD Learning, UK; GIUNTI Interactive Labs, Italy;
CATAI, Spain; PROFit Gestion Informatica, Spain
Goal:
To design and build a multi-role personalised learning platform using
collaborative software agents as the integrating component and for the
smart Knowledge Package (KP) finding function of the system. Different
technologies, based on existing Learning Technology interoperability
specifications are used for other aspects of the personalisation
process. The main thrust of the KOD Project in relation to agent
technologies has been the application of existing agent toolkits to a
multi-role information brokerage system rather than development of
agent technology itself. To this effect they have used the
FIPA-compliant JADE toolkit and have focused on the development of the
agent behaviors.
A paper with a detailed description is also available.
CoMMa
Timeframe:
2000-2002
Participants:
INRIA (French national institute of research in computer science and
control) Nice-Sophia-Antipolis, ACACIA, ATOS Sophia Antipolis agency
Goal:
to develop a multi-agent information management system supporting the
consultation of a corporate memory (based on XML technology) that will
capture, store and diffuse embedded knowledge of many types, in
interactive sessions to employees.
FACTS
Timeframe:
1998- 2000
Participants:
WP A1: Telecom Italia, NHK, Imperial College of London, IRST
Goal: to create an agent-based Audio-Visual Entertainment System.
WP A3: BT, FT, and Broadcom
Goal: to create a Personal Travel
Assistant
MONADS
Timeframe:
1999- 2000
Participants:
University of Helsinki, Sonera, Nokia, Tekes
Goal:
To design and implement a software architecture based on software
agents, extending existing systems with mobility-oriented features, in
order to support the interaction of nomadic users wanting to access the
fixed network services from virtually anywhere and anytime.
The principal idea in the Monads project has been that nomadic
applications are offered information about the future quality of the
connection, and they are supposed to adjust their behavior to meet the
forthcoming situation.
DICEMAN
Timeframe:
1998-2000
Participants:
Telecom Italia, KPN, Starlab
Goal:
to create an agent-based market for AV trading
LIME
Timeframe:
1999- 2000
Participants:
Imperial College of London, Philips, Queen Margaret University College
and Domus Academy
Goal:
to create a multi-agent system for connected communities. JADE has
successfully supported the LiMe communicating agents for dynamic user
profiling, collective information dissemination and memory management.
IM@GINE IT
Timeframe:
2004-2005
Participants:
Centre for Research and Technology Hellas /
Hellenic Institute of Transport, PTV Planung Transport Verkehr AG,
PORSCHE Engineering Group GmbH, HaCon Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH,
DaimlerChrysler AG, Athens International Airport S.A., Institute of
Communications and Computer Systems, Singular Software S.A.,
Transeuropean Consultants for Transport, Development and Information
Technology S.A., Ministry of Transport and Communications Finland, MMI
Tietoverkot OY, TOPOLISZ Térinformatikai
Stúdió Kft., 5T S.c.r.l., MIZAR MEDIASERVICE
S.R.L., CRF Societa’ Consortile per Azioni, Motorola
Electronics S.p.A.
Goal:
Existing infomobility services are only local,
incomplete and offered by varying user interfaces and service delivery
platforms.
IM@GINE IT project aims to develop one and single access point, through
which the end user can obtain location-based, intermodal transport
information (static and dynamic), mapping and routing, navigation and
other related services everywhere in Europe, anytime, taking into
account personal preferences of the user. Thus, IM@GINE IT targets the
facilitation of seamless travel in Europe.
Key innovative features include the design of a user preference and
context of use, issue of guidelines towards on-board compatible and
off-board user interfaces, the possibility to provide the service
through many different mobile devices (mobile phone, mobile PC, PDA,
in-car device), a Multi-Agent System that recognises and even learns
user preferences and guides the systems ambient intelligence, an
intelligent user localisation technique (combining GPS, Cell ID and
logical localisation techniques), a common data management module for
interfacing a wide range of contents, the independency from transport
mode (covering car, bus, train, metro, tram, ship, airplane, airport
facilities and even touristic POI’s), an integrated route
guidance approach (combining in-vehicle, pedestrian, PT-based and
within-building route guidance modules), the development of common
transport and tourism ontologies for semantic web applications, the
centralised provision of integrated and dynamic services and the open
interface to many existing systems; all within a common, modular and
intuitive concept. Thus, IM@GINE IT intends to become a universal
platform, covering urban, interurban and crossborder areas.
IM@GINE IT supports the eSafety initiative by performing research in
distributed intelligent agents, secure communications and advanced
positioning and mapping technologies and their integration for
supporting the provision of location-based value-added services.
MicroGrids
Project funded by the European Commission under the 5th (EC) RTD
Framework Programme (1998-2002) within the thematic programme
“Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development”
under contract No. ENK-CT-2002-00610
Timeframe:
2003-2005
Participants:
National Technical University of Athens -
Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (NTUA/ICCS),
Electricidade de Portugal (EDP), Public Power Corporation S.A
(PPC/NAMD&RESD), Electricite de France (EDF), SMA Regelsysteme
(SMA), URENCO Power Technologies Ltd., Germanos S.A., Instituto de
Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores do Porto (INESC Porto),
University of Manchester - Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST),
Institut fuer Solare Energieversorgungstechnik e.V (ISET), Association
pour la Recherche e le Dévelopment des Méthodes
et Processus Industriels (ARMINES/CENERG), Labein-Tecnalia, Ecole
Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris (ENSMP/CENERG),
EMforce
Goal:
The interconnection of small, modular generation
sources to low voltage distribution systems can form a new type of
power system, the MicroGrid.
MicroGrids can be connected to the main power network or be operated
autonomously, if they are isolated from the power grid, in a similar
manner to the power systems of physical islands.
In project work package WPB Labein-Tecnalia (TODO: link to
http://www.labein.es/) has used JADE to build a Management System for
Micro Grids operation and control. Over the JADE platform the developed
management system includes functionalities such as SCADA (System
Control and Data Acquisition), generation schedule tracking, DSM
(Demand Side Management), sell bids management (accordingly to Spanish
market operator - OMEL - model), secondary regulation system and
support for emergency functions. The software has been deployed and
successfully tested on laboratory facilities (DeMoTec) under different
micro grid configurations.
*E-Commerce
Agent Platform (E-CAP)*
Timeframe:
2006-2008
Participants:
Systems Research Institute of Polish Academy of
Sciences
Goal:
Comprehensive agent-based e-commerce system
realizing price negotations and combining: (a) adaptability and
intelligence (change strategy according to history of purchases), (b)
mobility (based on transfer of negotation modules and agents). Project
is supported by a Marie Curie IRG Grant