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A (μ, λ)-coordination mechanism for agent-based multi-project scheduling
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A new generic negotiation-based mechanism to coordinate project planning software agents to share resources among projects to come close to results obtained by central solution methods.Abstract:
A new generic negotiation-based mechanism to coordinate project planning software agents to share resources among projects is described. The mechanism, which takes into account asymmetric information and opportunistic behavior, is concretized for the decentralized resource constrained multi-project scheduling problem, and evaluated on 80 benchmark instances taken from the literature and 60 newly generated instances. Computational tests show that the proposed mechanism comes close to results obtained by central solution methods. For twelve benchmark instances new best solutions could be computed.read more
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A multi-agent system for distributed multi-project scheduling: An auction-based negotiation approach
TL;DR: A novel distributed multi-agent system using auctions based negotiation (DMAS/ABN) approach for resolving the resource conflicts and allocating multiple different types of shared resources amongst multiple competing projects and winner determination problem is solved by efficient new heuristic.
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A multi-agent system for decentralized multi-project scheduling with resource transfers
TL;DR: This paper proposes a novel distributed multi-agent system using auctions based negotiation (DMAS/RIA) approach for the resource intervals and allocating multiple different types of shared resources amongst multiple competing projects.
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Simulating the dynamic scheduling of project portfolios
TL;DR: This work proposes a multi-agent system, where projects negotiate the procurement of resources through an auction mechanism all over the portfolio life, and both projects and resources are modelled as agents.
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A critical chains based distributed multi-project scheduling approach
TL;DR: A distributed multi-agent system based algorithm called DMAS/EM is developed and it is observed that the algorithm provides great scalability with respect to variations in the size of instances processed and the degree of conflicts.
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Multi-project scheduling with two-stage decomposition
Anıl Can,Gündüz Ulusoy +1 more
TL;DR: An exact solution procedure and a genetic algorithm approach are proposed for solving the MP, a non-preemptive, zero time lag multi-project scheduling problem with multiple modes and limited renewable and nonrenewable resources.
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