Enabling Agility through Coordinating Temporally Constrained Planning Agents

In crisis response, hierarchical organizations are being replaced by dynamic assemblies of autonomous agents that promise more agility. However, these autonomous agents might cause a decrease in effectiveness when individually constructed plans for moderately-coupled tasks are not jointly feasible. Existing coordination techniques can be applied...

Agent-Based Control of Distributed Electricity Generation with Micro Combined Heat and Power: Cross-Sectoral Learning for Process and Infrastructure Engineers

For the distributed control of an electricity infrastructure incorporating clusters of residential combined heat and power units (micro-CHP or ?CHP) a Multi-Agent System approach is considered. The network formed by households generating electricity with ?CHP units and the facilitating energy supplier can be regarded as an electricity production...

Coordination for Agents with Freedom of Choice

Autonomous, self-interested agents have to construct plans for their activities. Together, these plans form a joint plan in the multi-agent system the agents are part of. Merging the plans of these agents is not guaranteed to be successful as their plans might conflict. Hence, we require some form of coordination that enables agents to plan for...

Vehicle Routing under Uncertainty

In this thesis, the main focus is on the study of a real-world transportation problem with uncertainties, and on the comparison of a centralized and a distributed solution approach in the context of this problem. We formalize the real-world problem, and provide a general framework to extend it with different sources of uncertainty. We apply...

Informed Tectonics: The case-study of a transferium for Almere center, the Netherlands: A network and swarm based research and design for non-standard architecture

- Informed Tectonics - the case-study of a transferium for Almere center, the Netherlands. A network and swarm based research and design for non-standard architecture The discussion posed is an research investigation and design proposal of an large urban-architectural insert, in relationship within the immediate local surroundings with the inner...

Agent-based Multi-organizational Interaction Design: A Case Study of the Dutch Railway System

In multi-organizational alliances, inter- and intraorganizational interactions are performed in dynamic environments towards the cooperative goals. To adapt to such dynamics, not only should organizational design provide sufficient representation of organizational requirements, but also provide control mechanisms to switch between different...

Multi-agent systems in StarCraft

The Interactive Intelligence section of the TU Delft would like to replace the game UT3 that is used in the Multi-Agent Systems project (MAS-project), which is a part of the bachelor curriculum of computer science. The game that has been selected for this purpose is StarCraft. StarCraft is called the `next challenge in AI development' by Google....

A Multi-Agent Negotiation Approach to Formation Flying Coordination for Civil Aviation

This study proposes a novel coordination approach for the purpose of formation flying in civil aviation. Inspired by the natural phenomenon of bird flight, formation flying has proven to reduce the aerodynamic drag of trailing aircraft that follow the wake of a leader. We investigate the network scale fuel-savings potential of this operational...

Agents United: An Open Platform for Multi-Agent Conversational Systems

The development of applications with intelligent virtual agents (IVA) often comes with integration of multiple complex components. In this article we present the Agents United Platform: an open source platform that researchers and developers can use as a starting point to setup their own multi-IVA applications. The new platform provides...