The General-Purpose Intelligent Agent

General Purpose Agent-Based Parallel Computing

Parallel computing has become an important research field in the last years. The availability of hardware and the success of grid computing have motivated this interest. In this paper we present a new approach for managing parallel environments in a grid-like manner using agent technologies. Multiagent systems provide an added value to standard grid approaches due to their high level abstractio...

Agent-based Integration of General-Purpose Tools

Agent-Based Software Integration (ABSI) entails the development of intelligent software agents and knowledge-sharing protocols that enhance interoperability of multiple software packages. Although some past ABSI projects reported in the literature have been concerned with the integration of relatively large software frameworks from separate engineering disciplines, the discussion in this paper ...

Developing a general purpose intelligent control system for particle accelerators

Tuning and controlling particle accelerators is time consuming and expensive. Inherently nonlinear, this control problem is one to which conventional methods have not satisfactorily been applied; the result is constant and expensive monitoring by human operators. In recent years, and with isolated successes, advanced information technologies such as expert systems and neural networks have been ...

Intelligent General Purpose Data Acquisition Units for Student Labs

High-speed intelligent multichannel analogue input/output interface units have been developed at our department by the combination of high-performance digital signal processors with high resolution A/D and D/A converters. The device is able to generate pre-programmed arbitrary signals with the synchronous capture of input signals on eight channels, and is, thereby, ideal for system control and ...

General-Purpose Computation without General-Purpose Processors