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Enabling agility through coordinating temporally constrained planning agents
J. Renze Steenhuisen
author
Mathijs M. De Weerdt
author
Cees Witteveen
author
2007
Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM
Delft
English
In crisis response, hierarchical organizations are being replaced by dynamic assemblies of autonomous agents that promise more agility. However, these autonomous agents might cause a decrease in effectiveness when individually constructed plans for moderately-coupled tasks are not jointly feasible. Existing coordination techniques can be applied in the pre-planning phase to guarantee feasible joint plans for partially-ordered tasks. Temporal relations in crisis response are often more complex than the simple precedence relations in current work. Therefore, we analyze whether temporal information can be dealt with by a conversion to partially-ordered tasks with only precedence constraints. Time windows and two temporal constraints (overlaps and during) can be rewritten in such a way that the task remains partially-ordered. When other temporal constraints (meets, starts, finishes, and equals) are used, tasks become tightly-coupled, requiring coordination in the execution phase as well. This work shows the applicability of pre-planning coordination as an enabling technology for the effective formation of agile organizations.
Multi agent systems
Planning
Coordination
Coordination technique
Enabling technologies
Hierarchical organizations
Precedence constraints
Precedence relations
Temporal constraints
Temporal information
Autonomous agents
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J.RenzeSteenhuisen_etal2007
Intelligent Human Computer Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM 2007 Academic Proceedings Papers
ISCRAM 2007
B. Van de Walle
P
Burghardt
editor
4th International ISCRAM Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
2007
Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM
Delft
conference publication
457
466
9789054874171; 9789090218717
2411-3387
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