Agent-Based Global Transportation Scheduling in Military Logistics
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 3
Performance Analysis of a Multiagent Architecture for Passenger Transportation
SOFSEM '07 Proceedings of the 33rd conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science
Design of an Agent-Based System for Passenger Transportation Using PASSI
IWINAC '07 Proceedings of the 2nd international work-conference on Nature Inspired Problem-Solving Methods in Knowledge Engineering: Interplay Between Natural and Artificial Computation, Part II
Design of a Multiagent Solution for Demand-Responsive Transportation
AI*IA '07 Proceedings of the 10th Congress of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence on AI*IA 2007: Artificial Intelligence and Human-Oriented Computing
Modelling and Analysing the Contract Net Protocol - Extension Using Coloured Petri Nets
FORTE '08 Proceedings of the 28th IFIP WG 6.1 international conference on Formal Techniques for Networked and Distributed Systems
On the Design of Interface Agents for a DRT Transportation System
Agent Computing and Multi-Agent Systems
Distributed planning for the on-line dial-a-ride problem
FAW'07 Proceedings of the 1st annual international conference on Frontiers in algorithmics
Interface agents' design for a DRT transportation system using PASSI
IDEAL'07 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Intelligent data engineering and automated learning
Multilevel approach to agent-based task allocation in transportation
CIA'06 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Cooperative Information Agents
MADARP: a distributed agent-based system for on-line DARP
ISPA'07 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications
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A suitable method for distributed transportation scheduling isnecessary for the development of an agent-based logistics supportsystem for the Australian DefenceForce.Manager Agents (MA) requireresources to be transported, in large quantities and on a globalscale, using the services of many Transport Agents (TA). In thispaper, we investigate the application of Fisherís ExtendedContract Net Protocol (ECNP) to our transportation domain.ECNPprovides a distributed and reactive approach to transportationscheduling that is fairly suited to this domain, but has itsshortfalls. This includes the inability for TA to bid for partialroutes, in addition to partial quantities, for a transportationtask. A new protocol is proposed, based on ECNP, called theProvisional Agreement Protocol (PAP), which overcomes theseshortfalls. Five speech acts, together with policies regarding thepersistence and commitment of tasks and bids, are proposed. Thisallows agents to revisit bid options that were previously selected,and thus accomodates bidding for partial routes.