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Autonomous Agents Architecture to Supervise and Control a Wastewater Treatment Plant

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Engineering of Intelligent Systems (IEA/AIE 2001)

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Intelligent agents and multiagent societies are becoming a recurrent solution to complex distributed artificial intelligence problems. Some of the agent properties determine the sort of problems that they can solve efficiently. Here, we describe a complex environmental process, Wastewater Treatment Plant, which is difficult to control. An agent- based architecture is proposed, which improves some previous works on Intelligent Systems which are not based on agents. The proposed archi- tecture is described and several specific-purpose agents are designed for that problem and their interactions explicated.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Enginyeria Informàtica i Matemàtiques, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Carretera de Salou s/n, 43006 Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain

    David Riaño

  2. Llenguatges i Sistemes Informàtics, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Edifici C5, Jordi Girona 1-3, 08034 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

    Miquel Sànchez-Marrè

  3. Universitat de Girona Campus de Montilivi, Laboratori d’Enginyeria Química i Ambiental, 17071 Girona, Catalonia, Spain

    Ignasi R.-Roda

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  1. Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Intelligent Manufacturing and Business Processes Computer and Automation Research Institute, Kende utca 13-17, 1111, Budapest, Hungary

    László Monostori  & József Váncza  & 

  2. Department of Computer Science 601 University Drive, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, 78666-4616, USA

    Moonis Ali

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Riaño, D., Sànchez-Marrè, M., R.-Roda, I. (2001). Autonomous Agents Architecture to Supervise and Control a Wastewater Treatment Plant. In: Monostori, L., Váncza, J., Ali, M. (eds) Engineering of Intelligent Systems. IEA/AIE 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2070. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45517-5_88

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