Distributed management of flexible times schedules

Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 484-491

  Smith, Stephen F ^a   Gallagher, Anthony ^a   Zimmerman, Terry ^a   Barbulescu, Laura ^a   Rubinstein, Zachary ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent architectures; Multi agent scheduling

Indexed keywords

AGENT ARCHITECTURES; BASIC MECHANISMS; COLLABORATIVE AGENTS; DISTRIBUTED ENVIRONMENTS; DISTRIBUTED MANAGEMENTS; EXPECTED VALUES; FEASIBLE SOLUTION SETS; FEASIBLE SOLUTIONS; GLOBAL VIEWS; INFRA STRUCTURES; JOINT QUALITIES; MULTI-AGENT SCHEDULING; SCHEDULE CHANGES; TEMPORAL NETWORKS; TEMPORAL UNCERTAINTIES; UNEXPECTED EVENTS;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; ELECTRIC SHIP EQUIPMENT; FUZZY CLUSTERING; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SCHEDULING;

AGENTS;

EID: 60349127693     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1329125.1329215     Document Type: Conference Paper

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