A distributed model for performance systems: synchronizing plans among intelligent agents via communication
Multiagent compromise via negotiation
Distributed Artificial Intelligence (Vol. 2)
Rules of encounter: designing conventions for automated negotiation among computers
Rules of encounter: designing conventions for automated negotiation among computers
KQML as an agent communication language
CIKM '94 Proceedings of the third international conference on Information and knowledge management
Deriving consensus in multiagent systems
Artificial Intelligence
Designing conventions for automated negotiation
Readings in agents
The Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problem: Formalization and Algorithms
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Agent-Based Engineering, the Web, and Intelligence
IEEE Expert: Intelligent Systems and Their Applications
An evolutionary compensatory negotiation model for distributed dynamic scheduling
Applied Soft Computing
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In the construction industry, projects are becoming increasingly large and complex, necessitating multiple subcontractors. Traditional centralized coordination techniques used by general contractors become insufficient as subcontractors perform most work and provide their own resources. When subcontractors cannot provide enough resources, they hinder their own performance, that of other subcontractors, and ultimately the entire project. Thus, projects need a new distributed coordination approach wherein all of the concerned subcontractors can respond to changes and reschedule a project dynamically. This paper presents a new distributed coordination framework for project schedule changes (DCPSC) that is based on an agent-based negotiation approach wherein software agents evaluate the impact of changes, simulate decisions, and give advice on behalf of the human subcontractors. A case example demonstrates the significance of the DCPSC. It compares two centralized coordination methodologies used in current practice to the DCPSC framework. We demonstrate that our DCPSC framework always finds a solution that is better than or equal to any of two centralized coordination methodologies.