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AGENTS
2001
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
Scheduling multi-task multi-agent systems
We present a centralized and a distributed algorithms for scheduling multi-task agents in heterogeneous networks. Our centralized algorithm has an upper bound on the overall compl...
Rong Xie, Daniela Rus, Clifford Stein
ATAL
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Stigmergic reasoning over hierarchical task networks
Stigmergy is usually associated with semantically simple problems such as routing. It can be applied to more complex problems by encoding them in the environment through which sti...
H. Van Dyke Parunak, Theodore C. Belding, Robert B...
ICMAS
1998
14 years 10 months ago
Poaching and Distraction in Asynchronous Agent Activities
We investigate coordination issues in a distributed jobshop scheduling system in which agents schedulepotentially contentious activities asynchronously in parallel. Agents in such...
Mike H. Chia, Daniel E. Neiman, Victor R. Lesser
ATAL
2005
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Bumping strategies for the multiagent agreement problem
We introduce the Multiagent Agreement Problem (MAP) to represent a class of multiagent scheduling problems. MAP is based on the Distributed Constraint Reasoning (DCR) paradigm and...
Pragnesh Jay Modi, Manuela M. Veloso
AI
2005
Springer
14 years 9 months ago
Asynchronous aggregation and consistency in distributed constraint satisfaction
Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSP) have been very successful in problem-solving tasks ranging from resource allocation and scheduling to configuration and design. Increasingly...
Marius-Calin Silaghi, Boi Faltings