Intelligent control and asset management for the petroleum industry is crucial for profitable oil and gas facilities operation and maintenance. A research program was initiated to study the feasibility of an intelligent asset management system for the offshore oil and gas industry in Atlantic Canada. The research program has achieved several milestones. The conceptual model of an automated asse...

An intelligent communicating agent has both the properties of intelligent agents and communicating agents, which are autonomy, reactivity, proactiveness and sociability. In this paper, we propose a modelbased approach to designing and implementing intelligent communicating agents for multi-agent systems (MAS). As background knowledge for our approach, we first briefly introduce the agent-orient...

Software development for robotic systems require knowledge from several domains. This paper highlights the application of domain modeling in SafeRobots Framework for designing robotic systems. We discuss how heterogeneous domain models can be modeled and integrated for systematic software development, and how it can be employed in intelligent model evolution.

INTRODUCTION Although there is no firm consensus on what constitutes an intelligent agent (or software agent), an intelligent agent, when a new task is delegated by the user, should determine precisely what its goal is, evaluate how the goal can be reached in an effective manner, and perform the necessary actions by learning from past experience and responding to unforeseen situations with its ...