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COORDINATORS
The COORDINATORS program defines a challenging
multi-agent application,
with agents operating in a highly dynamic environment, where no agent
has a complete
view of the problem. Unexpected execution events require the agents to
coordinate
and respond quickly, by adjusting their schedules to match the evolving
execution circumstances, in a way that continues to maximize
the quality of their joint activities.
We implemented an incremental scheduling framework
designed to support the joint management of inter-dependent schedules.
Our approach combines an underlying
flexible-times representation of the schedule, which exploits
temporal flexibility to absorb executional uncertainty and
insulate dependencies across agent schedules, with an incremental
approach to schedule revision, which promotes solution stability
and tends to minimize the ripple effect of change across agent
schedules.
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