RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN COMPLEX SOCIO-TECHNICAL SYSTEMS: A MULTIAGENT COORDINATION FRAMEWORK
Peter Kropf, Brahim Chaib-draa · 2000
Resource management in complex socio-technical systems is a central and crucial task. The many diverse components involved together with various constraints such as real-time conditions make it impossible to devise exact optimal solutions. In this article, we present an approach to the re-source management problem based on the multia-gent paradigm to be applied in the context of a ship-board command and control (C2) system. A general architecture for multiagent planning and schedul-ing for achieving a common shared goal together with a real-time simulation environment as well as a simulation test-bed using the agent teamwork ap-proach is described.