General Description
This project results from the collaboration between the
Liris laboratory and the
OSLO company. This one provided a financing for my thesis (CIFRE context).
The object for this project was to elaborate an adapted multi-agent environment for industrial problems. We focus on the sharing resource problem, which is particularly difficult when addressed with a decentralised representation (each agent acts locally). The resulting technology CESNA (Complex Exchange between Stigmergic Negotiating Agents) is associated to an United States Patent.
The resource sharing problem
For this problem, a set of consumers have to acquire a set of shared resources to achieve a set of tasks. In this context the resources allocation process is submitted to a set of constraints (such as chronological constraints) related to tasks to be achieved by the consumers. These constraints make the system, composed by
the consumers and the resources, react as a complex system, since intermediate states leading to a solution for the resources allocation problem are interrelated in a retroactive way: one resource assignment impacts on the remaining possibilities of future assignments of other resources.
Industrial partner
Outputs
- Research development: this collaboration leaded to an United States CESNA patent and some nationals/internationals publications.
- Industrial development: during this collaboration, the OSLO company reinforced its multi-agent positioning. OSLO acquired a fast-growing for its innovative multi-agent technology mainly based on CESNA for the resource sharing.
- Extension : The development of the CESNA technology continues with the project presented here