Description
I performed this work during a training period of Postgraduate Degree in Computer Science (research) with the MAIA team,
supervised by Vincent Chevrier.
Subject: (It's recommended to read the Scientific context before.)
The aim of the work initially consisted in studying various methods suggested in the literature to
answer the problem of the parameters' tuning.
Then, we awaited a specific proposal to develop the model within the team, our ambition was to allow an easy
adaptation of parameters when experimenting conditions changes, with a continuous
adaptation accorded to the system's evolution.
My research lead me into analyzing various related research works in order to observe the potential
existence of similar problems within different contexts.
Thus, the use of an optimization method seemed relevant to achieve our goals;
it's why by defining a protocol of resolution implementing - amongst other things - such a method, the instantiation we made,
was designed to function with the works of Franck Gechter, as well using the descent of gradient defined by Laurent Jeanpierre.
The results obtained offered interesting brief replies.
My report of Postgraduate Degree in Computer Science (research) (in french), as well as my support presentation (in french) are at your disposal.
They offers a good global vision of the whole of my work.
Remark(s)
Thanks to messages' exchanges between various modules of software architecture,
I was able to realize the Parameters Tuning Unity (PTU) which initially adapted those of the reactive multi-agents system conceived and implemented by Franck Gechter.
In order to make evolve the Parameters Tuning Unity and widen the range of systems being able to profit from it, while allowing the
interested people to take part in its evolution, I created a dedicated project Open source.
You can find information concerning the Parameters Tuning Unity, on the project's site hosted by Source Forge.
If you wish to test the Parameters Tuning Unity with the system created by Franck Gechter, you must contact him to obtain its source code.
Installation
To use the Parameters Tuning Unity, it is enough for you to have version 1.2
(or later) of the JRE (work was carried out with version 1.4).