Intelligent Agents that Monitor, Diagnose and Solve Problems: Two Success Stories of Industry-University Collaboration

This paper describes the results of two joint academyindustry projects that involve the Computer Science Department of Genoa University, Italy, and Ansaldo-STS, the Italian leader in design and construction of railway signalling and automation systems. The MAS developed as part of the MAD Agents (“Monitoring and Diagnostic Agents”) project monitors the behaviour of a set of processes running on an Ansaldo-STS server, whereas the goal of the MAS developed in the FYPA (“Find Your Path, Agents”) project is to find a feasible allocation of resources to agents over time that emerges as the result of a sequence of local negotiation steps. Both MASs have been developed in collaboration with scientists and engineers from Ansaldo-STS and have been widely tested on real data provided by the company