Meta-heuristics self-configuration for scheduling

• Author(s): Madureira, Ana Maria ; Fonseca, Nuno ; Pereira, Ivo
• Date: 2010
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/1266
• Origin: Repositório Científico do Instituto Politécnico do Porto
• Subject(s): Intelligent decision support system; Distributed agent system; Meta-heuristics; Computational intelligence; Dynamic scheduling
• Document Type: Part of book or chapter of book
• Language: English

Description

Scheduling resolution requires the intervention of highly skilled human problemsolvers. This is a very hard and challenging domain because current systems are becoming more and more complex, distributed, interconnected and subject to rapidly changing. A natural Autonomic Computing evolution in relation to Current Computing is to provide systems with Self-Managing ability with a minimum human interference. This paper addresses the resolution of complex scheduling problems using cooperative negotiation. A Multi-Agent Autonomic and Meta-heuristics based framework with self-configuring capabilities is proposed.