信息时代的管理信息系统-Chap004.pptVIP

Monitoring-and-Surveillance Agents Monitoring-and-surveillance (predictive) agents – intelligent agents that constantly observe and report on some entity of interest, a network, or manufacturing equipment, for example 4-* Data-Mining Agents Data-mining agent – operates in a data warehouse discovering information 4-* User Agents User or personal agent – intelligent agent that takes action on your behalf Examples: Prioritize e-mail Act as gaming partner Assemble customized news reports Fill out forms for you “Discuss” topics with you 4-* MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS AND AGENT-BASED MODELING Biomimicry – learning from ecosystems and adapting their characteristics to human and organizational situations Used to Learn how people-based systems behave Predict how they will behave under certain circumstances Improve human systems to make them more efficient and effective 4-* Agent-Based Modeling Agent-based modeling – a way of simulating human organizations using multiple intelligent agents, each of which follows a set of simple rules and can adapt to changing conditions Multi-agent system – groups of intelligent agents have the ability to work independently and to interact with each other 4-* Business Applications Southwest Airlines – cargo routing PG – supply network optimization Air Liquide America – reduce production and distribution costs Merck – distributing anti-AIDS drugs in Africa Ford – balance production costs consumer demands Edison Chouest – deploy service and supply vessels 4-* Swarm Intelligence Swarm (collective) intelligence – the collective behavior of groups of simple agents that are capable of devising solutions to problems as they arise, eventually learning to coherent global patterns 4-* Characteristics of Swarm Intelligence Flexibility – adaptable to change Robustness – tasks are completed even if some individuals are removed Decentralization – each individual has a simple job to do 4-* /Irwin