Gradient field-based task assignment in an AGV transportation system
AAMAS '06 Proceedings of the fifth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Exploiting the environment for coordinating agent intentions
E4MAS'06 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Environments for multi-agent systems III
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This demo illustrates MAS-DisCoSim 4 PDP, a testbed environment for evaluating distributed multi-agent system solutions to pickup and delivery problems (PDPs). PDPs are well-studied problems in operational research, and provide a quite suitable context for testing and evaluating a wide variety of distributed solutions, using particular reasoning and/or coordination mechanisms. The testbed provides a reusable simulation framework, and a particular model for PDP environments. The demo illustrates the testbed by showing two MAS-based solutions, one based on gradient field coordination, a second solution based on the coordination mechanism called 'delegate MAS'. The demo is interactive: a user can select any part of a map, downloaded from the OpenStreetMap website, can run various experiments, and can change - during simulation - various problem and solution characteristics and observe their effect.