The challenge of real-time multi-agent systems for enabling IoT and CPS

D Calvaresi, M Marinoni, A Sturm… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Techniques originating from the Internet of Things (IoT) and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)
areas have extensively been applied to develop intelligent and pervasive systems such as …

[HTML][HTML] Cooperating and Competing Digital Twins for Industrie 4.0 in Urban Planning Contexts

O Herzog, M Jarke, SZ Wu - Sci, 2023 - mdpi.com
Digital twins are emerging as a prime analysis, prediction, and control concepts for enabling
the Industrie 4.0 vision of cyber-physical production systems (CPPSs). Today's growing …

TAPAS: A multi-agent-based model for simulation of transport chains

J Holmgren, P Davidsson, JA Persson… - … Modelling Practice and …, 2012 - Elsevier
We present the Transportation And Production Agent-based Simulator (TAPAS), which is an
agent-based model for simulation of transport chains that can be used, eg, for analysis of …

Can agents measure up? A comparative study of an agent-based and on-line optimization approach for a drayage problem with uncertainty

T Máhr, J Srour, M de Weerdt, R Zuidwijk - Transportation Research Part C …, 2010 - Elsevier
Experiments studying the behavior of agent-based methods over varying levels of
uncertainty in comparison to traditional optimization methods are generally absent from the …

A multiagent system for truck dispatching in open-pit mines

G Icarte, P Berrios, R Castillo, O Herzog - Dynamics in Logistics …, 2020 - Springer
Material handling is an important logistic process for open-pit mines. In this process, shovels
extract materials and load trucks that transport these materials to different destinations. To …

An adaptive multi-agent system for task reallocation in a MapReduce job

Q Baert, AC Caron, M Morge, JC Routier… - Journal of Parallel and …, 2021 - Elsevier
We study the problem of task reallocation for load-balancing of MapReduce jobs in
applications that process large datasets. In this context, we propose a novel strategy based …

Agent-based service composition through simultaneous negotiation in forward and reverse auctions

C Preist, C Bartolini, A Byde - Proceedings of the 4th ACM Conference …, 2003 - dl.acm.org
Service composition is the act of taking several component products or services, and
bundling them together to meet the needs of a given customer. In the future, service …

[PDF][PDF] An Agent-based System for Truck Dispatching in Open-pit Mines.

GI Ahumada, E Riveros, O Herzog - ICAART (1), 2020 - scitepress.org
An important logistic process in open-pit mines is material handling due to its high
operational costs. In this process shovels extract and load materials that must be transported …

A field-based versus a protocol-based approach for adaptive task assignment

D Weyns, N Boucké, T Holvoet - Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent …, 2008 - Springer
Task assignment in multi-agent systems is a complex coordination problem, in particular in
systems that are subject to dynamic and changing operating conditions. To enable agents to …

An application of a multi-agent auction-based protocol to the tactical planning of oil product transport in the Brazilian multimodal network

RF Banaszewski, LV Arruda, JM Simão… - Computers & chemical …, 2013 - Elsevier
The transportation planning of oil products in Brazil's multimodal network is a complex
problem that involves various negotiations between decentralized entities in order to agree …