John K. Myers
Multi-Agent Communication and Commitment
and The BEHOLDER family of algorithms for
scheduling multiple parallel uncertain processes
under limited-resource conditions
Abstract:This report deals with two main concepts: communication and commitment
between multiple agents, and scheduling multiple parallel uncertain processes.
Communication between multiple agents in the real world requires many rules
dealing with intentions, expectations, and commitments. It is important to
understand these rules in order to understand how people act, and how computer
agents should act. This report explores some of the theory behind these rules.
The second protion of this report discusses the theory behind scheduling tasks for
multiple processes, and presents algorithms to deal with specific cases..