A Multi Agent Based Organizational Architecture for Dynamic Pickup and Delivery Problem

Journal of computing and information technology

Guerram, Tahar¹ 

[1] Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University Larbi Ben M'hidi of Oum El Bouaghi, Algeria

关键词: PDP;    DPDP;    Agent;    Multi agent system;    Complex system;   

DOI  :  10.20532/cit.2017.100392

学科分类：计算机科学（综合）

来源: Sveuciliste u Zagrebu

【 摘 要 】

Pickup and Delivery Problem (PDP) consistsof searchingan optimal set ofvehicles andan optimal set of routes, one route by each vehicle,in order to pickup items from a set of origins and deliver themto another set of destinations. Pickup and delivery problem is a class ofcomplex systems whose complexity is NP Hard. In PDP real life applications, heuristics and meta heuristics methods are used in order to obtain an acceptable solution in reasonable execution time. When unpredictable events, like for example path cut and vehicles failure, may occurduring the PDP schedule execution, we say that the PDP is dynamic (DPDP) and in this case we have to revise this schedule. In this paper, we propose a multi agent architecture for DPDP based on an organizational architecture. Supported by a formal framework, the proposed architecture allows us to show, through a case study that computed solution for the studied problem could be done in a parallel manner which attenuates substantially the problem complexity.

【 授权许可】

CC BY