Retractable contract network for empowerment in workforce scheduling
Edward P. K. Tsang, Timothy Gosling, Botond Virginas, Christos Voudouris, Gilbert Owusu, W. Liu · Multiagent and Grid Systems · 2008
This paper is about business modelling and negotiation protocol design in distributed scheduling, where individual agents have individual (potentially conflicting) interests. It is motivated by BT's workforce scheduling problem, in which multiple se