Software Agents for Internet-Based Systems and Their Design

Pham, Hanh

doi:10.1007/978-3-7908-1786-7_5

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“…Multiagent systems (MASs) have been studied intensively to tackle many complex and distributed application domains, such as e-commerce [10], logistics management [11], weather forecasting [12], and network management [13]. Generally, a MAS consists of a set of software agents that operate continuously and autonomously with their own threads of control in a distributed environment.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…A variety of agent-based coordination models have been presented in the past [10], [14]. Some models are based on the contract net protocol [9], [15], [16], which is simple but not good for iterative optimization in the view that it is very difficult to change the commitments made previously, while several other models, such as generalized partial global planning [17], distribute planning capabilities to all the agents and employ an extendable set of coordination mechanisms for more generic applicability.…”

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confidence: 99%

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A Performance Study on a Multiagent E-Scheduling and Coordination Framework for Maintenance Networks

Zhang

Santos²,

Luh³

2007

IEEE Trans. Syst., Man, Cybern. C

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Abstract-Many maintenance networks as well as supply networks and virtual enterprises consist of multiple organizations. A common problem arising in these different domains is multiorganization scheduling and coordination. The traditional centralized methods are not appropriate because of the existence of private information and decision-making authorities at different organizations. Although many distributed mechanisms have been presented for supply networks and virtual enterprises, they may not be effective for maintenance networks because of the difficulties of scheduling the tightly related maintenance operations and handling the massive uncertainties involved. These difficulties as well as the heterogeneity of the distributed environment make it challenging to develop an efficient framework for maintenance networks that can obtain a high-quality solution under different conditions, schedule in a timely manner, solve large-scale problems, and so on. In this paper, a price-based multiagent scheduling and coordination framework for maintenance networks is explored, and a systematic experimental study is carried out to evaluate the effects of different factors on its performance. The results show that the framework is able to overcome these difficulties and could be a step toward the next generation of e-scheduling for maintenance networks.

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confidence: 99%