A distributed agent approach to global transportation scheduling

Proceedings - IEEE/WIC International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, IAT'03

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 18-24

  Perugini, Don ^a,b   Lambert, Dale ^a   Sterling, Leon ^b   Pearce, Adrian ^b  

^a Defence Science and Technology Organisation   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGENT BASED; AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE FORCES; CONTRACT NET PROTOCOLS; DISTRIBUTED AGENTS; GLOBAL SCALE; LOGISTICS SUPPORT; NEW PROTOCOL; SPEECH ACTS; TRANSPORT AGENT; TRANSPORTATION DOMAIN;

INTERNET PROTOCOLS; SCHEDULING; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT;

TRANSPORTATION ROUTES;

EID: 4544225374     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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