Applications of model-based co-operative agents in production planning
Olga štĚpánková1, 2 
, Michal PĚchouček1, 2 , Vladimír MaŘík1, 2 and JiŘí LaŽanský1, 2
| (1) |
Department of Control Engineering, The Gerstner Laboratory for Intelligent Decision Making and Control, Czech Republic |
| (2) |
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University, Technická 2, CZ 166 27 Prague 6, Czech Republic |
Abstract
The tri-base acquaintance model of the agent's behaviour is presented in this paper. This represents an extension of the twin-base
model [Cao 97]. Based on practical experience, the new model tries to cope with parallel processing, precedence constraints,
and sparse resources. The idea of substituting the interagent negotiation processes by the internal planning activity of the
agents is stressed. This strategy is enabled by periodic revisions of the knowledge and data contained in the tri-base knowledge/data
bases.
The work presented in this paper was carried out under the support of the EUREKA PVS'98 project (no.1439), and the grants
GAčR no.102/96/0382 and MšMT no.VS 96047.
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