Technology

MAT3

EITech is developing the 3-rd generation of multi-agent technology (MAT3), which includes lessons learned from a 10-year experience of designing and delivering large-scale multi-agent systems for customers in Europe.

TOTAL TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS

EITech provides TOTAL INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS for enterprises and administrations, including:

Intelligent technology for supply chain management Intelligent technology for production scheduling Intelligent technology for stock control Intelligent technology for forecasting demand Intelligent technology for dynamic resource allocation Intelligent technology for financial control

Intelligent technology for web-based marketing and selling Intelligent technology for purchasing Intelligent technology for human resources management Intelligent technology for semantic search (text and multimedia) Intelligent technology for dynamic mining of data and text Intelligent technology for eGovernment

Evolutionary Development

MAT3 is a network of intelligent interacting nodes, which can be developed one at a time, enabling businesses and administrations to grow their technological solutions in a step-wise manner to suite their requirements.

High Level of Emergent Intelligence

EITech technology features high level of Emergent Intelligence, which is crucial for managing modern complex economic conditions.

Some applications contain hundreds of thousands of intelligent software agents that negotiate with each other and collectively make business decisions. In such applications agents are organized in swarms, which work concurrently, often each on a different server. Swarms are engaged in mutual interaction and exchange partial results with each other before agreeing on a final solution (for example the swarm that schedules trucks cooperates with the swarm that schedules truck drivers). By means of frequent exchange of results the two schedules emerge from the process fully compatible. Agents are capable of learning from experience and to understand meaning (semantics) of words, two features that greatly improve the quality of results.

Interacting swarms exhibit:

1. Autonomous self-organization (adaptive scheduling)
   

2. Auto-acceleration (increase in the speed of scheduling)
   

3. Constructive destruction (if an unexpectedly large number of new orders is received and they cannot be fit into the current schedule, the current schedule is destroyed and a new more flexible schedule is constructed by agents autonomously)
   

4. Spontaneous construction and deconstruction of multi-level structures (agents are capable of autonomously appointing a new agent to represent a group of agents to speed up the scheduling process or to improve loading factors)
   

5. Autonomous formation of coalitions
   

6. Autonomous constraint stressing
   

Scalability: From Small to Very Large Applications

Technology supports the development of relatively small as well as very large applications. It was used for rapid development of inexpensive, small fraud detection systems and semantic search engines and also for the development of very large applications such as:

1. A real-time scheduler managing 10% of world capacity for transportation of crude oil around the globe for Tankers International, London
   

2. A real-time scheduler for distribution of rented cars to locations throughout Europe for a large international agency
   

3. A real-time scheduler managing 2,000 taxis in London for its largest taxi company
   

Coverage of a Very Wide Range of Application Domains

Technology was used to develop a wide range of applications, including:

1. Agent based real-time, adaptive schedulers
   

2. Agent based dynamic data mining
   

3. Agent based pattern discovery in structured and unstructured data
   

4. Agent based Forecasting
   

5. Agent based semantic search
   

6. Agent based semantic web
   

7. Agent based text understanding
   

8. Agent based aircraft wing design
   

9. Design of variable geometry compressors controlled by agents
   

10. Agent based intelligent robot control
    

11. Multi-agent, RFID based resource management
    

Reusability

All applications are developed using an agent development toolkit, which enables a reuse of code up to 60%.

Comprehensive Ontology

Ontology is designed to include, in addition to objects, relations and attributes, also rules of behavior of objects.

World-class Experienced Technology Developers

Principals responsible for developing technology and overseeing all application design are two world-class Complexity Science and Agent Technology specialists, each with over 20 years experience in this field. Both are engaged in original research and technology development.

Roadmap to Continuous Innovation

A number of further innovations are in place for future development, which indicates that current technology will evolve as requirements and state of the art change.