A simulation environment for scheduling workflows in multi-agent systems

2013 International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Intelligent Systems, ARIS 2013 - Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 116-121

  Hsieh, Fu Shiung ^a   Lin, Jim Bon ^a  

^a CHAOYANG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

multi agent system; scheduling; workflow

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES; CONTRACT NET PROTOCOLS; DISTRIBUTED ARCHITECTURE; MULTI-AGENT SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE; SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT; SOLUTION METHODOLOGY; WORKFLOW; WORKFLOW SCHEDULING;

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; PETRI NETS; ROBOTICS;

SCHEDULING;

EID: 84883359665     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ARIS.2013.6573545     Document Type: Conference Paper

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