A contracting model for flexible distributed scheduling
dc.contributor.author | Sen, Sandip | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Durfee, Edmund H. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-09-11T14:33:28Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-09-11T14:33:28Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1996-08 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Sen, Sandip; Durfee, Edmund H.; (1996). "A contracting model for flexible distributed scheduling." Annals of Operations Research 65(1): 195-222. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/44288> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0254-5330 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1572-9338 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/44288 | |
dc.description.abstract | We are interested in building systems of autonomous agents that can automate routine information processing activities in human organizations. Computational infrastructures for cooperative work should contain embedded agents for handling many routine tasks [9], but as the number of agents increases and the agents become geographically and/or conceptually dispersed, supervision of the agents will become increasingly problematic. We argue that agents should be provided with deep domain knowledge that allows them to make quantitatively justifiable decisions, rather than shallow models of users to mimic. In this paper, we use the application domain of distributed meeting scheduling to investigate how agents embodying deeper domain knowledge can choose among alternative strategies for searching their calendars in order to create flexible schedules within reasonable cost. | en_US |
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dc.format.extent | 3115 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.format.mimetype | text/plain | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Baltzer Science Publishers, Baarn/Kluwer Academic Publishers; J.C. Baltzer AG, Science Publishers ; Springer Science+Business Media | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Economics / Management Science | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Theory of Computation | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Combinatorics | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Operations Research/Decision Theory | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Heuristics | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Meeting Scheduling | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Contract Net | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Search Bias | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Cancellation | en_US |
dc.title | A contracting model for flexible distributed scheduling | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Management | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Industrial and Operations Engineering | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Economics | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Business | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Engineering | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, 1101 Beal Avenue, 48109, Ann Arbor, MI, USA | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, University of Tulsa, 600 South College Avenue, 74104-3189, Tulsa, OK, USA | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/44288/1/10479_2005_Article_BF02187332.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02187332 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Annals of Operations Research | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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