An approach to Science research At Universitat Jaume I

Vicente R. Tomás López

April 2011

An approach to Science researchAt Universitat Jaume I

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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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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 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• 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

• 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

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

2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2007

Scholarship

2006

Ayudante LOUAssitant

Computer techniques (lab)

Advanced managemen

t of CSComputer

Sience

Introduction to computer sciene

Files & Databases

Data and information Structures

DataBase design and management

Databases

External Practices

Computer scence Projects

U. València U. Jaume I

No Computer Science Degrees

Computer Science Degrees

2008 20102009

Intelligent Agents

Profesor contratado doctor

Traffic management and control

Colaborador

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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)

• 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

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.

Status of the ART

Accidentally and meteo

Recommendations for meteo stations

Risk situation prognosis DSS

DSS Prototype RDS-TMCPrototype

Pilot test

Theoricstudies

Applied research

Prototypes

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Some projects Meteosafety

Two levels of intelligence

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Some projectsMeteosafety

Local system• 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 M-script• 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

Simulations1. R1 normal traffic, R2 normal traffic 2. R1 high traffic, R2 normal traffic 3. R1 normal traffic, R2 normal traffic

» Increase of 20% in off-ramp p1

4. R1 hight traffic, R2 normal traffic» Increase of 40% in off-ramp

5. R1 hight traffic, R2 normal traffic» 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