Multi-Agent Technology for Planning, Scheduling, and Resource Allocation

  • Authors:
  • V. Gorodetski;A. Lebedev

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ICMAS '98 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Multi Agent Systems
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

A large number of hot applications are reducible to combinatorial models. Almost all of them are at least NP - hard and cannot be solved in a traditional way. In the paper, we consider an agent -based approach to solve a set of planning and scheduling applications under real time and temporal constraints. The problem is formalized as a contract allocation task over a set of companies and specified as an auction-based competition of agents managed by a meta-agent. The paper contributions are multi-agent system architecture; knowledge-based specification of real time and temporal constraints; and knowledge-based auction management model.