As agents’ technology becomes increasing more prevalent, coordination in mixed agent-human environments becomes a key issue. Agent-human coordination is becoming even more important in real life situations, where uncertainty and incomplete information exists and communication is costly. While abundant research has focused on aspects of computerized teamwork, little attention has been given to t...

Task-based planning problems for multi-agent systems require multiple agents to find a joint plan for a constrained set of tasks. Typically, each agent receives a subset of tasks to complete. Due to task interdependencies, such task allocations induce interdependencies between agents as well. These interdependencies will prevent the agents from making a plan for their subset of tasks independen...

Abstract The Coalition Formation with Spatial and Temporal constraints Problem (CFSTP) is a multi-agent task allocation problem where the tasks are spatially distributed, deadlines workloads, number of agents typically much smaller than tasks. To maximise completed tasks, may have to schedule coalitions. state-of-the-art CFSTP solver, Look-Ahead (CFLA) algorithm, has two main limitations. First...

Cybernetic Transportation System (CTS) is a new branch of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), which is a solution to the urban transportation problem. The coordination of intelligent vehicles is critical for the operation of the Cybernetic Transportation System. We present a distributed coordination approach for the intelligent vehicles of the Cybernetic Transportation System, which is ba...

We propose to develop a framework for agent-based electronic markets (e-markets) for project supply chain coordination, where subcontractors interact and transact with other subcontractors within supply-chain networks with the assistance of software agents. The e-markets for project supply chain coordination complements our agent-based project schedule coordination framework by applying the adv...