Papers by Keerthi Rajendran
Handbook of Clean Energy Systems, Jul 16, 2015
Rajendran K, Ling-Chin, J., Roskilly, A. P. (2014 – in press). In: Handbook of Clean Energy Syste... more Rajendran K, Ling-Chin, J., Roskilly, A. P. (2014 – in press). In: Handbook of Clean Energy Systems. Volume 4: Intelligent Energy Systems. Yan J (ed), John Wiley & Sons, New York.
Design, Use and Experience
Teaching practical development of multi-agent systems (MAS) presents various difficulties. This i... more Teaching practical development of multi-agent systems (MAS) presents various difficulties. This is also the case for application areas, like multimodal dialog systems (MMD), which rely on agent technologies to provide their systems infrastructure. These areas are challenging for novices and require significant pre-requisite knowledge from both learners and educators. The authors aim to reduce these difficulties, targeting teaching towards undergraduate and postgraduate computing students from increasingly diverse educational backgrounds. The authors specify an adaptable multi-agent architecture and provide a set of general purpose agents to handle essential multimodal tasks like speech input/output, fusion and semantic analysis. They outline the design of this system and describe how it provides a framework for students to assemble complex systems and experiment with agent-level design patterns. They evaluate the usability of the resulting software and tools using the Cognitive Dime...
Computer Science Education, 2005
Advanced approaches to the construction of software systems can present difficulties to learners.... more Advanced approaches to the construction of software systems can present difficulties to learners. This is true for multi-agent systems (MAS) which exhibit concurrency, non-determinacy of structure and composition and sometimes emergent behavior characteristics. ...
Workshop on Java in Education at ACS/IEEE …, 2003
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
The computing industry has yet to take up agent technology as a new approach to software developm... more The computing industry has yet to take up agent technology as a new approach to software development. While other paradigms are supported by various tools, including generic IDEs, these are not well developed for agentware. Many agent platforms provide some form of IDE but these are platformspecific and are typically so tightly coupled to their agent platforms that they offer little re-use. There has been too little discussion about which tools an IDE should contain and few attempts to produce a generic IDE. In this paper, we identify two levels of abstraction requiring IDE tool support and draw on current research to categorise a set of generic tools for each level. We describe the reasons why existing MAS IDEs are coupled to their platforms and present an extendible software architecture which avoids this coupling. We build an IDE using this architecture and demonstrate its decoupling and extensibility by experimentation.
Advanced approaches to the construction of software systems can present difficulties to learners.... more Advanced approaches to the construction of software systems can present difficulties to learners. This is true for multi-agent systems (MAS) which exhibit concurrency, non-determinacy of structure and composition and sometimes emergent behavior characteristics. Additional barriers exist for learners in MAS because mainstream MAS technology is young and design methodologies are still evolving. This paper examines Agent UML- a set of proposed extensions to UML to facilitate MAS design. The paper highlights limitations in Agent UML's ability to accurately describe all aspects of MASs and suggests an additional diagrammatic technique to address these limitations. The additional methodology is intended to complement, rather than replace, those that already form the basis of Agent UML.
Advanced approaches to the construction of software systems can present difficulties to learners.... more Advanced approaches to the construction of software systems can present difficulties to learners. This is true for multi-agent systems (MAS) which exhibit concurrency, non-determinacy of structure and composition and sometimes emergent behavior characteristics. Additional barriers exist for learners in MAS because mainstream MAS technology is young and design methodologies are still evolving. This paper examines Agent UML a set of proposed extensions to UML to facilitate MAS design. The paper highlights limitations in Agent UML's ability to accurately describe all aspects of MASs and suggests an additional diagrammatic technique to address these limitations. The additional methodology is intended to complement, rather than replace, those that already form the basis of Agent UML.
Routledge Handbook of Energy Economics, 2019
In this paper we describe an approach which aims to reduce the complexity associated with buildin... more In this paper we describe an approach which aims to reduce the complexity associated with building multimodal systems to a level suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate computing students. To achieve this we specify an adaptable multiagent architecture for multimodal systems and provide a suite of general purpose, plug and play agents to handle essential tasks like speech I/O, fusion and semantic analysis. We outline the design of these agents and consider how they may be used by learners who are new to multimodal dialog systems.
The decreasing cost of sensing equipment and developments in the field of data science are provid... more The decreasing cost of sensing equipment and developments in the field of data science are providing increased opportunities for the validation and enhancement of existing knowledge and solutions across many fields. With the primary aim of supporting the optimisation of domestic thermal energy use, this paper documents the early stages of the application of a data centric approach to extend the understanding of energy use at an individual property level. To facilitate this, a Semantic Web platform is designed, providing the foundation on which factors influencing thermal energy use are inferred using data reasoning techniques.
Handbook of Clean Energy Systems, 2015
Rajendran K, Ling-Chin, J., Roskilly, A. P. (2014 – in press). In: Handbook of Clean Energy Syste... more Rajendran K, Ling-Chin, J., Roskilly, A. P. (2014 – in press). In: Handbook of Clean Energy Systems. Volume 4: Intelligent Energy Systems. Yan J (ed), John Wiley & Sons, New York.
Handbook of Clean Energy Systems, 2015
Rajendran K, Ling-Chin, J., Roskilly, A. P. (2014 – in press). In: Handbook of Clean Energy Syste... more Rajendran K, Ling-Chin, J., Roskilly, A. P. (2014 – in press). In: Handbook of Clean Energy Systems. Volume 4: Intelligent Energy Systems. Yan J (ed), John Wiley & Sons, New York.
Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems - AAMAS '07, 2007
Multiagent systems (MAS) research is well established yet there is little development of agent te... more Multiagent systems (MAS) research is well established yet there is little development of agent technology in industry. It has been suggested that this is due, in part, to the unavailability of support tools for Agent Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE). This paper suggests requirements for Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) to support MAS construction. We suggest that an IDE can be built as its own MAS which allows it to be decoupled from any particular agent framework thereby allowing it to be platform independent.
Rajendran K, Ling-Chin, J., Roskilly, A. P. (2014 – in press). In: Handbook of Clean Energy Syste... more Rajendran K, Ling-Chin, J., Roskilly, A. P. (2014 – in press). In: Handbook of Clean Energy Systems. Volume 4: Intelligent Energy Systems. Yan J (ed), John Wiley & Sons, New York.
Teaching practical development of multi-agent systems (MAS) presents various difficulties. This i... more Teaching practical development of multi-agent systems (MAS) presents various difficulties. This is also the case for application areas, like multimodal dialog systems (MMD), which rely on agent technologies to provide their systems infrastructure. These areas are challenging for novices and require significant pre-requisite knowledge from both learners and educators.
The authors aim to reduce these difficulties, targeting teaching towards undergraduate and postgraduate computing students from increasingly diverse educational backgrounds. The authors specify an adaptable multi-agent architecture and provide a set of general purpose agents to handle essential multimodal tasks like speech input/output, fusion and semantic analysis. They outline the design of this system and describe how it provides a framework for students to assemble complex systems and experiment with agent-level design patterns.
They evaluate the usability of the resulting software and tools using the Cognitive Dimensions Framework and byexamining students’ experience of using this approach in computing courses and project work.
We have noticed that given the choice, most international students in their first year abroad for... more We have noticed that given the choice, most international students in their first year abroad form mono-cultural groups and many are unfamiliar with working as a team. This implies that students’ engagement with group-based learning outcomes, i.e. those relating to group experience, may be limited.
Universities recognise these issues and promote efforts to integrate international students with British culture and education. However, on international foundation programmes
there is a need to focus on integration between international students, specifically in the classroom, as cultural variances prevent effective group work, with gaps between some
international cultures being wider than those between some international-UK cultures. We note that students from varied cultural backgrounds need to develop an understanding of a global ‘middle-ground’ before either the universities or the students can sustain a bridge between UK and ‘international’ culture.
We focus on improving intercultural group work in the classroom and invite discussion to formulate methods for understanding these differences and on how findings may be applied in order to foster group working skills.
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Papers by Keerthi Rajendran
The authors aim to reduce these difficulties, targeting teaching towards undergraduate and postgraduate computing students from increasingly diverse educational backgrounds. The authors specify an adaptable multi-agent architecture and provide a set of general purpose agents to handle essential multimodal tasks like speech input/output, fusion and semantic analysis. They outline the design of this system and describe how it provides a framework for students to assemble complex systems and experiment with agent-level design patterns.
They evaluate the usability of the resulting software and tools using the Cognitive Dimensions Framework and byexamining students’ experience of using this approach in computing courses and project work.
Universities recognise these issues and promote efforts to integrate international students with British culture and education. However, on international foundation programmes
there is a need to focus on integration between international students, specifically in the classroom, as cultural variances prevent effective group work, with gaps between some
international cultures being wider than those between some international-UK cultures. We note that students from varied cultural backgrounds need to develop an understanding of a global ‘middle-ground’ before either the universities or the students can sustain a bridge between UK and ‘international’ culture.
We focus on improving intercultural group work in the classroom and invite discussion to formulate methods for understanding these differences and on how findings may be applied in order to foster group working skills.
The authors aim to reduce these difficulties, targeting teaching towards undergraduate and postgraduate computing students from increasingly diverse educational backgrounds. The authors specify an adaptable multi-agent architecture and provide a set of general purpose agents to handle essential multimodal tasks like speech input/output, fusion and semantic analysis. They outline the design of this system and describe how it provides a framework for students to assemble complex systems and experiment with agent-level design patterns.
They evaluate the usability of the resulting software and tools using the Cognitive Dimensions Framework and byexamining students’ experience of using this approach in computing courses and project work.
Universities recognise these issues and promote efforts to integrate international students with British culture and education. However, on international foundation programmes
there is a need to focus on integration between international students, specifically in the classroom, as cultural variances prevent effective group work, with gaps between some
international cultures being wider than those between some international-UK cultures. We note that students from varied cultural backgrounds need to develop an understanding of a global ‘middle-ground’ before either the universities or the students can sustain a bridge between UK and ‘international’ culture.
We focus on improving intercultural group work in the classroom and invite discussion to formulate methods for understanding these differences and on how findings may be applied in order to foster group working skills.