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The real-time resource management and budget calculation in the civil construction sector is usually a complex problem, specially when involving a large number of heterogeneous entities, geographically distributed over a wide area. Moreover, the environment unpredictability that usually leads to the necessity of a constant and effective re-scheduling is an important problem. In this paper, a DAI based resource management system for civil construction companies is presented. To allow effective task allocation, a coalition formation strategy and a specific negotiation algorithm, specially adapted to this class of problems, including intra and inter coalition negotiation is introduced. Finally, to illustrate the proposed solutions, a concrete application example is presented.
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Oliveira, E., Fonseca, J.M., Steiger-Garção, A. (1996). Negotiation Between Economically Motivated Agents. In: Camarinha-Matos, L.M., Afsarmanesh, H. (eds) Balanced Automation Systems II. BASYS 1996. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35065-3_32
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