Autonomic Software Engineering for online cultural experiences

这个项目是关于利用社交网络的优势，使用自主软件代理来丰富，鼓励和活跃对博物馆或画廊等在线文化艺术品的参与。由于目前欧洲金融债务的问题，许多文化机构正计划缩短游客可以实际进入的长度。例如，在英国，我们听说大英博物馆将提前关闭，并可能每周完全关闭一天，因为英国Chronors演讲中提出的资金大幅削减，详细说明了文化部门的资金减少。基本的想法是让你的朋友，博物馆，艺术画廊和剧院都在你的口袋里通过你的手持设备。在这个项目中，我们将利用自主代理的力量，代表人类用户在一个基础设施，允许这些代理代表他们的人类用户进行通信和谈判，以促进在线文化访问的集体和社会体验。例如，我们可以想象一个场景，其中4个学生正在参观一个艺术博物馆，希望为朋友购买一些东西（例如手工艺品的打印或物理副本）。他们希望能够协商在网上看到或体验什么，他们想要考虑什么额外的信息，他们单独或集体想要为其他人留下的任何评论来自以前的访问者的评论，以及最终他们集体选择为他们的朋友购买什么。我们关心的是建立自主代理，可以代表他们的用户的需求，争论和谈判代表他们的用户与其他软件和人类代理，维护系统中的其他自主代理的模型，并积极主动地制定计划和方案，为他们的人类同行的基本问题。为了使自主代理在开放系统中进行交互，例如我们所描述的那些，我们将在一个良好的基础设施（称为电子机构）上使用BDI代理架构（可以说是过去20年中最重要的符号代理架构），以促进自主代理交互。简而言之，我们相信BDI架构代表了构建自主代理的更强大和最先进的软件工程设备，电子机构是支持自主交互的最先进的基础设施，并且在线实现更丰富的文化艺术品社会探索的想法是一个及时和关键的案例研究。

This project is about exploiting the predominance of social networking using autonomic software agents to enrich, encourage and enliven engagement with online cultural artefacts such as from a museum or a gallery. With the current problems in the European financial debt, many cultural institutions are planning to shorten the length that visitors can physically enter. In the UK for example we have heard of plans that the British Museum will close earlier and possibly shut down completely for one day a week because of the massive cuts in funding that were presented in the UK Chancellors speech detailing reduction in money for the cultural sector. The basic idea is to have your friends, museums, art galleries and theatres all in your pocket through your handheld device. In this project we will harness the power of autonomic agents that work on behalf of human users in an infrastructure that allows for these agents to communicate and negotiate on behalf of their human users to facilitate a collective and social experience of online cultural visits. For example, we could imagine a scenario where 4 students are visiting an art museum with the desire to purchase something (a print or a physical copy of an artefact for example) for a friend. They would wish to be able negotiate about what to see or experience online, what additional information they want to consider, what comments from what previous visitors over any commentary they individually or collectively want to leave for others and, eventually, over what they collectively choose to purchase for their friend. We are concerned with the fundamental question of building autonomic agents that can represent their users needs, argue and negotiate on behalf of their users with other software and human agents, maintain models of the other autonomic agents in the system and proactively develop plans and scenarios for their human counterparts. In order for autonomic agents to interact in open systems such as those we are describing we will use the BDI agent architecture (arguably the most important symbolic agent architecture of the last 20 years) on a well-developed infrastructure (called electronic institutions) that facilitates autonomic agent interaction. In short we believe BDI architectures represent the stronger and best-developed software engineering device for building autonomic agents, that electronic institutions is the best developed infrastructure for supporting the interaction of autonomous interaction, and that the idea of enabling richer social exploration of cultural artefacts online is a timely and critical case study to address.