The UMASS intelligent home project
Proceedings of the third annual conference on Autonomous Agents
Learning quantitative knowledge for multiagent coordination
AAAI '99/IAAI '99 Proceedings of the sixteenth national conference on Artificial intelligence and the eleventh Innovative applications of artificial intelligence conference innovative applications of artificial intelligence
Toward robust agent control in open environments
AGENTS '00 Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Autonomous agents
Evolving real-time agent control for large-scale MAS
Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Autonomous agents
Distributed sensor network for real time tracking
Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Autonomous agents
Cognition, Sociability, and Constraints
Balancing Reactivity and Social Deliberation in Multi-Agent Systems, From RoboCup to Real-World Applications (selected papers from the ECAI 2000 Workshop and additional contributions)
Design-to-Criteria Scheduling: Real-Time Agent Control
Revised Papers from the International Workshop on Infrastructure for Multi-Agent Systems: Infrastructure for Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Scalable Multi-Agent Systems
Revised Papers from the International Workshop on Infrastructure for Multi-Agent Systems: Infrastructure for Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Scalable Multi-Agent Systems
Evolving Real-Time Local Agent Control for Large-Scale Multi-agent Systems
ATAL '01 Revised Papers from the 8th International Workshop on Intelligent Agents VIII
A key-based coordination algorithm for dynamic readiness and repair service coordination
AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
COORDINATORS: Coordination Managers for First Responders
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 3
The Soft Real-Time Agent Control Architecture
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
A framework for meta-level control in multi-agent systems
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
An application view of COORDINATORS coordination managers for first responders
IAAI'04 Proceedings of the 16th conference on Innovative applications of artifical intelligence
The ARTS real-time agent architecture
LADS'09 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Languages, Methodologies, and Development Tools for Multi-Agent Systems
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Scheduling complex problem solving tasks, where tasks are interrelated and there are multiple different ways to go about achieving a particular task, is an imprecise science and the justification for this lies soundly in the combinatorics of the scheduling problem. Intractable problems require approximate solutions. We have developed a new domain-independent approach to task scheduling called Design-to-Criteria that controls the combinatorics via a satisficing methodology and custom designs schedules to meet a particular client''s goal criteria. In Design-to-Criteria, criteria directed focusing, approximation, and heuristics, in conjunction with soft goal criteria are used to make the scheduling problem tractable. We describe the interesting facets of the Design-to-Criteria approach and give examples of its power at reducing the complexity of the scheduling task while designing custom satisficing schedules.