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Resource management

In the previous scenario, resource management came up as a problem involving interdependent actions. In the current scenario, agents can also coordinate schedules. Decker's Generalized Partial Global Planning (GPGP) allows several heterogeneous agents to post constraints, or commitments to do a task by some time, to each other's local schedulers and thus coordinate without the aid of any centralized agent [21].



Peter Stone
Wed Sep 24 11:54:14 EDT 1997