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My main project is my VENI project on Coordinated multiagent planning financed by NWO/STW (2005-2008). The following is an introduction to this research.
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There is a growing interest towards methods that support the coordination
of activities of different companies. For example, if trucking companies are
able to coordinate their truck planning, they can share empty rides to reduce
their operational costs significantly. Since such coordination processes are
computationally intensive and need to be highly adaptive, human-based support
for coordination is simply not feasible. Consequently, ICT-support for
inter-organizational coordination is needed.
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This proposal aims to develop an ICT-based framework to support
inter-organizational coordination. In particular, it aims to develop a system
to support autonomous planners (i.e., the planning departments of the companies
involved) in coordinating their planned activities to enhance their individual
and common efficiency.
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In this research proposal special attention will be given to privacy and
reusability aspects of coordination. This requires a new approach to
coordinated planning, since current theories on coordination and planning
assume that all parties are willing to share all information. In practice,
however, (competing) companies will often refuse to share knowledge. This leads
to the requirement that each agent should be able to decide which information
to share and when to participate. Furthermore, companies would like to continue
using their own planning systems. Therefore, the theoretical kernel of this
proposal is the development of a conceptual framework and algorithms for
coordinated planning that enable participating companies (i) to maintain their
own level of autonomy and privacy and (ii) to reuse their existing planning
tools.
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The results of this research will be validated empirically. We aim to
show that not only the operational costs of the companies involved will be
reduced, but that also the customers can benefit: we expect that by
coordination companies are able to offer their services more flexibly, more
reliably (e.g., by using other companies resources), and for less costs.
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This project started January 1st 2005 and will take until December 31st 2008.
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See my
publications for publicly available scientific results,
or log in here for all documents related to this
project.
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| Other projects |
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| I am involved in |
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I am also involved in Sicco Verwer's motor management
project on inductive inference of (timed) automata.
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My work is part of the CABS program.
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