This paper presents the MIC∗ model of autonomous agents deployment environment. A practical social software engineering framework based on AGR is also presented to show how MIC∗ is used to develop MAS applications.

The Rayleigh conjecture about convergence up to the boundary of the series representing the scattered field in the exterior of an obstacle D is widely used by engineers in applications. However this conjecture is false for some obstacles. AGR introduced the Modified Rayleigh Conjecture (MRC), which is an exact mathematical result. In this paper we review the theoretical basis for the MRC method...

In this paper, we introduce an approach for designing and deploying organizations on large scale Multi-Agent Robotic Systems. Lying on the well-known organizational meta-model AGR, we propose a role assignment protocol for automatically distributing the roles over the robots. We have run a series of simulations to validate the approach’s feasibility. The simulations show that the protocol is we...

One of the major assumptions in Artificial Intelligence is that similar experiences can guide future reasoning, problem solving and learning; what we will call, the similarity assumption. The similarity assumption is used in problem solving and reasoning systems when target problems are dealt with by resorting to a previous situation with common conceptual features. In this article, we question...

The paper presents the task of recognizing environmental sounds for audio surveillance and security applications. A various characteristics have been proposed for audio classification, including the popular Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs) which give a description of the audio spectral shape. However, it exist some temporal-domain features. These last have been developed to character...

This paper presents an online method that learns the corresponding points of an object from un-annotated grayscale images containing instances of the object. In the first image being processed, an ensemble of node points is automatically selected which is matched in the subsequent images. A Bayesian posterior distribution for the locations of the nodes in the images is formed. The likelihood is...

The aim of urine clinical examination is to identify the pathology components and diagnose diseases of the urology system. It is necessary to realize automatization in the field of microscopic analyzer of urine solution. Detecting particles in the microscopic image is much more difficult because the particles has irregular shape and blur edge. This paper briefly discusses image segmentation and...

How does our visual system detect prominent contours? Our investigation begins with the observation that neurons in the visual cortex have receptive fields similar to oriented Gabor filters. Unlike plain gray-level intensity histograms which greatly vary across images, we found that Gabor orientation-response (or orientation-energy) histograms of natural images have a fairly uniform shape. Base...

The aim of biometrics is to identify humans from their personal traits more efficiently using devices, algorithms and procedures for applications that require security and authentication. Multispectral image analysis has gained importance due to its potential for accurate and faster recognition performance. In this paper, Multispectral palmprint biometric system is proposed which uses the fusio...