An exception-handling architecture for open electronic marketplaces of contract net software agents
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM conference on Electronic commerce
Designing robust, open electronic marketplaces of contract net agents
ICIS '99 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Information Systems
Argumentation as distributed constraint satisfaction: applications and results
Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Autonomous agents
A Dynamic Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Approach to Resource Allocation
CP '01 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming
Dynamic Distributed Resource Allocation: A Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Approach
ATAL '01 Revised Papers from the 8th International Workshop on Intelligent Agents VIII
Degree of Local Cooperation and Its Implication on Global Utility
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 2
Bumping strategies for the multiagent agreement problem
Proceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Advanced Engineering Informatics
Exception Diagnosis Architecture for Open Multi-Agent Systems
Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems V
Handling emergent resource use oscillations
PRIMA'04 Proceedings of the 7th Pacific Rim international conference on Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
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We investigate coordination issues in a distributed job-shop scheduling system in which agents schedule potentially contentious activities asynchronously in parallel. Agents in such a system will in general have a limited view of the global state of resources and must exchange appropriate state information with other agents in order to schedule effectively. However, even given perfect instantaneous knowledge of other agents' resource requirements, agents still may not be able to schedule effectively if they do not also model the possible future actions of other agents and the effects of their own actions. We formally describe two types of agent behaviors, poaching and distraction, arising from the asynchronous nature of distributed systems that decrease scheduling effectiveness, and we present experimental results from a distributed airport resource management system demonstrating a significant improvement in scheduling performance when coordination mechanisms are used to prevent such behaviors.