Distributed Scheduling of Tasks with Deadlines and Resource Requirements
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Coordinating Mutually Exclusive Resources using GPGP
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Environment centered analysis and design of coordination mechanisms
Environment centered analysis and design of coordination mechanisms
The Contract Net Protocol: High-Level Communication and Control in a Distributed Problem Solver
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Using partial global plans to coordinate distributed problem solvers
IJCAI'87 Proceedings of the 10th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
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In a distributed hospital system, different hospitals should collaborate among themselves for sharing their resources to provide better and faster service to the patients. We address the distributed hospital resource scheduling problem and apply the Generalized Partial Global Planning (GPGP) approach used for multiagent systems for the same. An adaptive coordination mechanism based on the contract net protocol is proposed to support inter-hospital collaboration. We have performed simulation studies and the experimental results show that our coordination mechanism performs better than commonly used schemes. Fault handling mechanisms are presented so that the system continues to provide service even in the presence of faults. The proposed approach is applicable in contexts other than the distributed hospital system as well.