Title :
Task assignment for a physical agent team via a dynamic forward/reverse auction mechanism
Author :
Ahmed, Amr ; Patel, Abhilash ; Brown, Tom ; Ham, MyungJoo ; Jang, Myeong-Wuk ; Agha, Gul
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Illinois Univ., Urbana, IL, USA
fDate :
April 18-21, 2005
Keywords :
combinatorial mathematics; commerce; divide and conquer methods; multi-agent systems; remotely operated vehicles; UAV search-and-rescue mission; auction algorithm; bipartite maximal matching; dynamic distributed task assignment; dynamic forward-reverse auction mechanism; near-optimal assignment; physical agent team; resource constraints; unmanned aerial vehicle; Aggregates; Algorithm design and analysis; Computer science; Forward contracts; Joining processes; Laboratories; Monitoring; Open systems; Unmanned aerial vehicles; Vehicle dynamics;
Conference_Titel :
Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems, 2005. International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9013-X
DOI :
10.1109/KIMAS.2005.1427101