PRIME

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PRIME

• FP6-IST Project entitled PRIME
• Providing Real Integration in Multi-disciplinary
  Environments (No. FP6-IST-016542).

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PRIME ?????

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  manufacturing).
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  ????? the Virtual Business Environment (VBE).

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PRIME ????? - ???????????

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• taking a 30 year old professional and
  transforming them into one with a 50 year olds
  experience without the drudgery of twenty years
  of business mishaps and successes

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• PRIME (Providing Real Integration in a
  Multi-disciplinary Environment), ? ?????????? IST
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  PRIME ? ??????? ??????? ?????.
• http//www.alfamicro.pt/prime/project/overview.htm

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Game Design Stakeholders
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• ????????????? ????????? ????????, ? ?? ????????
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• ???????? ???????? (Critical Incidents Technique)
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Virtual Business Environment (VBE)

• ??????? ????????????? ? VBE, ???? ?????????
  ????????? ???????? (Business Unit).
• ?? ????????? ?? CEO ??? ?? ??????? ????
  ?????????? ? ??????????????????? ?? ????????????.
• ?????????? ?? ???????? ?? ???? ????????????
  ??????? Production, Product Development, Sales,
  Human Resources, Strategic Marketing,
  Distribution, Finance and Information Systems.

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???????? ???????? - ???????????

• ???????? ???? ?? ?? ???????? ?? ??? ??????
• Competence Analysis. ???????? ?? ???????? ???? ??
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Toolbox

• ????? ?? ???????? ?? ?????????? ?? ????????????
  ?? Virtual Business Environment (VBE)
• ??????????????
• ?? ?????????? the data model
• ?? ???????? ??????? ?? ?????????? ????????
• ??????????? ?? toolbox
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User responsibilities in PRIME
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Toolbox

• ???? PRIME toolbox ????? ??
• ?????????, ???????????? ? ?????????? ?????? ??
  ??????? ?? PRIME Virtual Business Environment
  (VBE)
• export / import ?? ???????? ????????? ?? ??????
• ????????? ? ??????????????? ??????????? ??????
  Artificial Stakeholders (AS) ? ??????

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Toolbox Architecture
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• The Toolbox enables the users to do
• Create a new object
• Create new users
• Modify an object
• Export the current state of the game into XML
  file
• Import it later onto the PRIME server
• Create artificial stakeholders
• Generate an XML file containing the definition of
  objects in the game
• Generate a Protégé knowledgebase

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?????????????? ?? ??????????? ??????

• persistence ????????????? ????????????
• ??????????? (agents have capabilities of task
  selection, prioritization, goal-directed
  behaviour, decision-making without human
  intervention) autonomous agents are
  self-contained and capable of making independent
  decisions, and taking actions to satisfy internal
  goals based upon their perceived environment
• ?????????? (agents are able to engage other
  components through some sort of communication and
  coordination, they may collaborate on a task)
• ??????????? (agents perceive the context in which
  they operate and react to it appropriately).

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??????????? ?? ??????????? ??????

• ?????????? ?? ????????? - adaptation implies
  sensing the environment and reconfiguring in
  response. This can be achieved through the choice
  of alternative problem-solving-rules or
  algorithms, or through the discovery of problem
  solving strategies. Adaptation may also include
  other aspects of an agent's internal
  construction, such as recruiting processor or
  storage resources.
• ?????????? ?? (????)???????? - learning may
  proceed through trial-and-error, then it implies
  a capability of introspection and analysis of
  behaviour and success. Alternatively, learning
  may proceed by example and generalization, and
  then it implies a capacity to abstract and
  generalize.

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????????? ?????? ? PRIME

• PRIME ???????? ????????? ????? Artificial
  Stakeholder (AS) ? ?????? ?? ????????? ?????.
• ?? ??????? ?? ???????? ?????, AS ?????? ?????????
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Conceptual architecture of PRIME agents
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?????????????? ?? AS

• Basic Layer (BL) ?????????? ?? ??????? ??
  ?????? ???????business process decision flow
  implementation
• Advanced Layer (AL) ?????? ??????????????
  ??????, ???????? ?????????? ?? ?????????,
  ?????????, ?????????? ???????????? ? ??. ???.

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Artificial Intelligence perspective

• data perceived through its sensors facts about
  the current VBE state and facts about its own
  (AS) state
• knowledge (for example, inference rules)
  applied to the data it allows to infer new facts,
  to change the VBE state (through effectors), to
  change the AS state, and even to change the AS
  knowledge if adaptation and learning are taking
  place.

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• Its easily observable that to implement the
  Basic Layer the AS does not need sophisticated
  model of the virtual world and its own mission in
  it. Its behavioural patterns are mostly of the
  stimulus-response type. At this level the AS is
  closer to a Finite State Automaton.
• On the contrary, to implement the Advanced Layer
  of behaviour the AS needs sophisticated model of
  the virtual world. In order to optimize, to plan,
  to manage portfolio, etc. in a dynamic and
  non-fully predictable (at least because of the
  human players activities) world, the AS have to
  recognize and analyze relatively complex
  interrelations often involving time. Recognizing
  temporal dependencies and tendencies becomes of
  vital importance for AS successful operation.

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?????????? ?? ???????? ? PRIME

• ?????????? ?? ?????? ? ????? ???????? ??
  ??????????? ? ????????? ?? ??????.
• ???????? Protégé ? ?????? ?? Knowledge Base
  Management System ? Algernon ? ?????? ?? ??????
  ?? ???? ? ??????? ?????, ??????? ?? ???????.
• ???? ???????? ????????? ????????? ? ??????????
  ?????????????? ?? ?????????????, ? ???? ? ??????
  ??????????? ? ??????, ??????????? ?? Java.

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Mapping of the conceptual AS architecture to
three technology layers
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• The AS sensors and effectors are implemented as
  Java methods communicating via CORBA with the
  PRIME server.
• Information about important PRIME server classes,
  which are of interest to the artificial
  stakeholders, is transferred via xml file to the
  Protégé layer at initialization time. It is used
  to create appropriate Protégé classes.
• When sensors register changes of the server
  state, which might be of interest to the AS,
  corresponding Protégé instances are created,
  which in turn fires appropriate Algernon forward
  rules. The triggered inference process may
  involve also backward-chaining inference rules,
  as demonstrated in the example described below.
• Side effects of the inference rules execution
  include change of the knowledge base state
  (Protégé), and activation of effectors methods
  which changes the server state.

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AS Prop1 Value Prop2 Value Prop3 Value
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PRIME agents example- cont.
tender
product
price
quantity
time

market data
product on stock
production rate



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An Example
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A Forward Rule Example
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A Backward Rule Example
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• Inexistence of Serious Game Culture
• Workshops
• Involve the user in the design
• Partner internal and external dissemination
• What is a Serious Game? Difficult to solicit User
  Requirements
• Visual artefacts
• Intense dialogue
• Hands-on experimentation
• User centered development
• Ambitious project
• Spiral based approach
• Parallel strands
• Interconnecting tasks

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PRIME Development Methodology 3/4
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PRIME Development Methodology

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