A multiagent society for military transportation scheduling
David Montaña, José R. Herrero, Gordon Vidaver, G. Bidwell · Journal of Scheduling · 2000
We are in the process of building a proof-of-concept automated system for scheduling all the transportation for the United States military down to a low level of detail. This is a huge problem currently handled by many hundreds of people across a large number and variety of organizations. Our approach is to use a multiagent society, with each agent performing a particular role for a particular organization. Use of a common multiagent infrastructure allows easy communication between agents, both within the transportation society and with external agents generating transportation requirements. We have demonstrated the feasi-bility of this approach on several large-scale deployment scenarios. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.