In
computer science multi-agent planning involves coordinating the resources and activities of multiple ''
agents''.
NASA says, "multiagent planning is concerned with
planning by (and for) multiple agents. It can involve agents planning for a common goal, an agent coordinating the plans (plan merging) or planning of others, or agents refining their own plans while negotiating over tasks or resources. The topic also involves how agents can do this in real time while executing plans (distributed continual planning). Multiagent scheduling differs from multiagent planning the same way planning and scheduling differ: in scheduling often the tasks that need to be performed are already decided, and in practice, scheduling tends to focus on algorithms for specific problem domains".
See also
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Automated planning and scheduling
Automation describes a wide range of technologies that reduce human intervention in processes, namely by predetermining decision criteria, subprocess relationships, and related actions, as well as embodying those predeterminations in machines ...
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Distributed artificial intelligence
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Cooperative distributed problem solving and
Coordination
Coordination may refer to:
* Coordination (linguistics), a compound grammatical construction
* Coordination complex, consisting of a central atom or ion and a surrounding array of bound molecules or ions
* Coordination number or ligancy of a centr ...
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Multi-agent systems and
Software agent and
Self-organization
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Task Analysis, Environment Modeling, and Simulation (TAEMS or TÆMS)
References
Further reading
Durfees (1999) chapter o
desJardinset al. (1999)
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* See Chapter 2
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External links
A tutorial on planning in multiagent systems
Multi-agent systems
Automated planning and scheduling
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