Decentralized control of cooperative and autonomous agents for solving the distributed resource allocation problem

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 114-128

  Anussornnitisarn, Pornthep ^a   Nof, Shimon Y ^a   Etzion, Opher ^b  

^a SCHOOL OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING   (United States)

^b IBM HAIFA RESEARCH LAB   (Israel)

Author keywords

Coordination protocol; Distributed collaboration network; Distributed resource allocation; Parallel simulator; Viability measures

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

COORDINATION PROTOCOL; DISTRIBUTED COLLABORATION NETWORK; DISTRIBUTED RESOURCE ALLOCATION; PARALLEL SIMULATOR; VIABILITY MEASURES;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 26044452084     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2004.05.015     Document Type: Conference Paper

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