Laurent LUCIEN : Contribution to a global modeling of collaboration in multi-agent systems…

Laurent LUCIEN thesis work : « Contribution to a global modeling of collaboration in multi-agent systems. Application to smart mobile entities »

Summary :
Today we live in an increasingly complex and interconnected world where many entities, more and more intelligent, generate a multitude of interactions that can contribute to enriching their capacities. We are interested in collaboration that will enable complex tasks to be performed by these machines today and tomorrow by stimulating these structured interactions and integrating intelligent decision-making processes. In this way, it will contribute to improve their functioning and will be able to participate in their improvement (better knowledge of their environment, speed of action and decision-making, provision of new skills).

The main objective of the thesis is therefore to contribute to the understanding of what collaboration is, from its definition to its implementation, by highlighting its underlying concepts. We propose a method of needs analysis and constraints as well as a collaborative agent architecture model (HACCA) to integrate all the characteristics of the collaborative processes that we present. We are also presenting a first implementation in the GAMA multi-agent platform.

As part of this study, we are interested in two cases of application of mobile entities: drones and connected vehicles. Thus we also contribute more to the autonomous and decision-making needs of drones, connected and autonomous vehicles of the future, in a constrained temporal context where the quality of interactions is essential to optimize the process of achieving objectives.

Jury members :
- M. Laurent PHILIPPE, Full Professor, Université de Franche-Comté, Thesis Director
- M. Frédéric AMBLARD, Full Professor, Université Toulouse 1 Capitole, Rapporteur
- M. René MANDIAU, Full Professor, Université Polytechnique Hauts de France, Rapporteur
- M. Fabrice BOUQUET, Full Professor, Université de Franche-Comté, Examinator
- M. Nour Eddin EL FAOUZI, CNRS Researcher, IFSTTAR, Examinator
- M. Mihai SOCOLIUC, Responsable des communautés scientifiques, PSA Group, Centre technique de Vélizy, Examinator
- M. Christophe LANG, Maître de Conférences, Université de Franche-Comté, Thesis Co-Director
- M. Nicolas MARILLEAU, Research Engineer, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Thesis Co-director

Location : UFR Sciences et techniques, route de Gray-Besançon (salle des Actes)