A Distributed Decision-Making Structure for Dynamic Resource Allocation Using Nonlinear Functional Approximations

A Distributed Decision-Making Structure for Dynamic Resource Allocation Using Nonlinear Functional Approximations

This paper proposes a distributed solution approach to a certain class of dynamic resource allocation problems and develops a dynamic programming-based multiagent decision-making, learning, and communication mechanism. In the class of dynamic resource allocation problems we consider, a set of reusable resources of different types has to be assigned to tasks that arrive randomly over time. The a...

Multiattribute Decision Making by Sequential Resource Allocation

A new approach is proposed for addressing decision problems in which the outcomes are multidimensional and possibly interdependent. The method is based on decomposing the problem into a sequence of simpler decision problems. The solution to each subproblem is elicited from the decisionmaker by converting it to a simple resource allocation task that may be solved by inspection. Our experience in...

Rational Decision Making in Resource Allocation

Bayesian Toolbox for Dynamic Distributed Decision Making

The paper outlines a new challenging area of control, namely distributed decision making under uncertainty. Presence of many decision-making units, called the participants is the main distinction from the classical control theory. The problem is analysed from Bayesian point of view. Each participant has the abilities of classical adaptive controller, i.e. learning of the environment and design ...

Dynamic Distributed Resource Allocation: A Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Approach

In distributed resource allocation a set of agents must assign their resources to a set of tasks. This problem arises in many real-world domains uch as distributed sensor networks, disaster rescue, hospital scheduling and others. Despite the variety of approaches proposed for distributed resource allocation, a systematic formalization of the problem, explaining the different sources of difficul...