A MULTI-AGENT MODEL BASED ON RESIDUAL RESOURCES

Gaël Hette, Sylvia Estivie, Emmanuel Adam, René Mandiau

2012

Abstract

We propose a model to solve the disturbances which could occur during the execution of agents task schedules in a dynamic multi-agent system. Our model is based on pooling residual resources to reallocate tasks in case of incoming tasks or disturbances during the execution of the system. In our context, initial task schedules of agents are defined such that, during some given time windows, agents can perform additional tasks with their residual resources. In this paper, we propose a model for this problem. In order to validate this model, we also propose a first resolution method attempt and an experimental study of this framework.

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in Harvard Style

Hette G., Estivie S., Adam E. and Mandiau R. (2012). A MULTI-AGENT MODEL BASED ON RESIDUAL RESOURCES . In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-8425-96-6, pages 85-90. DOI: 10.5220/0003698600850090


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icaart12,
author={Gaël Hette and Sylvia Estivie and Emmanuel Adam and René Mandiau},
title={A MULTI-AGENT MODEL BASED ON RESIDUAL RESOURCES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART,},
year={2012},
pages={85-90},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003698600850090},
isbn={978-989-8425-96-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART,
TI - A MULTI-AGENT MODEL BASED ON RESIDUAL RESOURCES
SN - 978-989-8425-96-6
AU - Hette G.
AU - Estivie S.
AU - Adam E.
AU - Mandiau R.
PY - 2012
SP - 85
EP - 90
DO - 10.5220/0003698600850090