Planning under uncertainty for coordinating infrastructural maintenance (abstract)

Scheduling of infrastructural maintenance poses a complex multi-agent problem. Commonly a central authority is responsible for the quality and throughput of the infrastructure, while the actual maintenance is performed by multiple self-interested contractors. Not only does the central authority have to (economically) incentivise agents to...

Planning under Uncertainty for Coordinating Infrastructural Maintenance (abstract)

Scheduling of infrastructural maintenance poses a complex multi-agent problem. Commonly a central authority is responsible for the quality and throughput of the infrastructure, while the actual maintenance is performed by multiple self-interested contractors. Not only does the central authority have to (economically) incentivise agents to...

Planning under Uncertainty for Coordinating Infrastructural Maintenance

We address efficient planning of maintenance activities in infrastructural networks, inspired by the real-world problem of servicing a highway network. A road authority is responsible for the quality, throughput and maintenance costs of the network, while the actual maintenance is performed by autonomous, third-party contractors. From a (multi...

Planning under uncertainty for coordinating infrastructural maintenance

Dynamic Mechanism Design for Efficient Planning under Uncertainty

We study the planning of maintenance activities on public infrastructural networks – road networks, Internet, power grids, etc. – in contingent environments such that the negative impact on the network user is minimised. Traditional efforts hereto are mainly of a regulatory nature, whereas we propose charging the service-providers (agents)...

Designing a dynamic network based approach for asset management activities

Transportation networks are important public infrastructures because they enable economic and social activity. Trends in contracting the maintenance of such assets have caused a shift in governance from a public body to market-like arrangements and changed the roles and responsibilities among asset owner, asset manager and service providers....