Distributed personnel scheduling—negotiation among scheduling agents

Distributed personnel scheduling - negotiation among scheduling agents

This paper introduces a model for Distributed Employee Timetabling Problems (DisETPs) and proposes a general architecture for solving DisETPs by using a Multi Agent System (MAS) paradigm. The architecture is composed of a set of autonomous software Scheduling Agents (SAs) that solve the Employee Timetabling Problems (ETP) for each department. Each agent has its own local ETP problem and its own...

Negotiation among Scheduling Agents for Distributed Timetabling

Dialogues among Distributed Agents

The paper presents a new language for implementing distributed and autonomous agents. Assuming that any autonomous agent may be modelled by a system engaged in a dialogue with other agents, we consider a previously described, theoretical dialogue architecture called STROBE [5] that reduces the computational primitives for modelling synchronous, two-partner dialogues to STReams, OBjects and Envi...

Scheduling Agents - Distributed Timetabling Problems(DisTTP)

Many real world Timetabling Problems (TTPs) are composed of organizational parts that need to timetable their staff in an independent way, while adhering to some global constraints. Later the departmental timetables are combined to yield a coherent, consistent solution. This last phase involves negotiations with the various agents and requests for changes in their own

Distributed Scheduling Agents for Disaster Response

In this paper, we describe the application of a multi-agent framework for collaborative scheduling to a disaster response coordination problem. The target problem is a field exercise mockup of a natural disaster, where a team of human agents must rely on their respective automated scheduling agents to coordinate and accomplish various infra-structure repair and casualty transport tasks. Followi...