A Multi-agent Scheduler for Rent-a-Car Companies
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The paper gives overview of multi-agent dynamic scheduling solution for rent-a-car business domain. Specific requirements for cars and drivers scheduling, developed multi-agent and ontologybased approach for real time scheduling, systems architecture and performance measurements are presented. Key design decisions and results of first stage of developments are discussed. One of most important results is the system ability to schedule complex interdependent works of many resources and update generated schedules by events in real time. Developed multi-agent approach can be applied for solving complex real time scheduling and optimization problems for many applications
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تاریخ انتشار 2009