Partial Adjustable Autonomy in Multi-Agent Environment and Its Application to Military Logistics

• Main Authors: LAU, Hoong Chuin, AGUSSURJA, Lucas, THANGARAJOO, Ramesh
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2005
• Subjects: Decision making; Fuzzy sets; Logistics; Real time systems; Computer Sciences; Military and Veterans Studies; Operations Research, Systems Engineering and Industrial Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/359; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/1358/viewcontent/IAT05_AdjAutonomy.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In a rapidly changing environment, the behavior and decision-making power of agents may have to be adaptive with respect to a fluctuating autonomy. In this paper, a centralized fuzzy approach is proposed to sense changes in environmental conditions and translate them to changes in agent autonomy. A distributed coalition formation scheme is then applied to allow agents in the new autonomy to renegotiate to establish schedule consistency. The proposed framework is applied to a real-time logistics control of a military hazardous material storage facility under peace-to-war transition.