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CIA 1999: Cooperative Information Agents III pp 61–85Cite as

Resource Management in Agent-based Distributed Environments

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This paper presents an agent-based architecture for optimally managing resources in distributed environments. The agent-based approach allows for maximal autonomy in agent negotiation and decision-making. A three-layer agency-based architecture is proposed, consisting of the user, agency and application domain layers. Agencies correspond to enterprise functional units, and agents are associated with agencies. A formal model of resources and constraints is presented, and it is shown that, under certain assumptions, optimal resource decompositions and allocations can be achieved. A distributed protocol is developed for agencies and agents to negotiate and exchange resources autonomously, while still satisfying both local and global constraints.

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  1. Center for Information Systems Integration and Evolution Department of Information and Software Engineering, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, 22030-4444

    Alexander Brodsky & Larry Kerschberg

  2. Industrial Engineering Department, University of Chile Republica 701, Chile

    Samuel Varas

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  1. DFKI German AI Research Center Ltd., Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, D-66123, Saarbrücken, Germany

    Matthias Klusch

  2. The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, 15213, PA, USA

    Onn M. Shehory

  3. Institut für Informatik, Technische Universitä München, D-80290, München, Germany

    Gerhard Weiss

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Brodsky, A., Kerschberg, L., Varas, S. (1999). Resource Management in Agent-based Distributed Environments. In: Klusch, M., Shehory, O.M., Weiss, G. (eds) Cooperative Information Agents III. CIA 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1652. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48414-0_4

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