NDLI: A distributed agent approach to global transportation scheduling

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Perugini, D. Lambert, D. Sterling, L. Pearce, A.
Copyright Year	2003
Description	Author affiliation: Defence, Sci. & Technol. Oganisation, Edinburgh, SA, Australia (Perugini, D.; Lambert, D.)
Abstract	A suitable method for distributed transportation scheduling is necessary for the development of an agent-based logistics support system for the Australian Defence Force. Manager Agents (MA) require resources to be transported, in large quantities and on a global scale, using the services of many transport agents (TA). We investigate the application of K. Fischer et al.'s (1996) Extended Contract Net Protocol (ECNP) to our transportation domain. ECNP provides a distributed and reactive approach to transportation scheduling that is fairly suited to this domain, but has its shortfalls. This includes the inability for TA to bid for partial routes, in addition to partial quantities, for a transportation task. A new protocol is proposed, based on ECNP, called the Provisional Agreement Protocol (PAP), which overcomes these shortfalls. Five speech acts, together with policies regarding the persistence and commitment of tasks and bids, are proposed. This allows agents to revisit bid options that were previously selected, and thus accomodates bidding for partial routes.
Sponsorship	IEEE Comput. Soc. Tech. Committee on Computational Intelligence (TCCI) Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC)
Starting Page	18
Ending Page	24
File Size	436315
Page Count	7
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0769519318
DOI	10.1109/IAT.2003.1241043
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2003-10-13
Publisher Place	Canada
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Transportation Intelligent agent
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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