Publication
CASA: A Distributed Holonic Multiagent Architecture for Timber Production
Andreas Gerber; Nils Kammenhuber; Matthias Klusch
In: Proceedings of the first International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-02), July 15-19, Bologna, Italy, Pages 551-552, ACM Press, 2002.
Abstract
In the forestry domain producing and trading goods have to be
done more and more just-in-time. Therefore a more flexible and
accessible planning and scheduling system for the production is
needed. To follow up this purpose, as well as the technological
trend of pervasive computing, a project called CASA was
founded. The CASA project (Co-operative Agents and Integrated
Services for Logistic and Electronic Trading in Forestry and
Agriculture) focuses on the development of an agent-based
information and trading network (ITN) establishing mobile,
integrated services in selected application scenarios. Hereby
agent-mediated services of the CASA ITN support the main
operative business processes which users are performing in each
of the following application scenarios: (1) customer-oriented,
dynamic timber production, (2) mobile trading of timber via
different types of auctions, fixed or negotiable price, and (3)
electronic trading of cereals. But for reasons of space limitation in
the following we focus on the customer-oriented dynamic timber
production.