Virginas, B.; Ursu, Marian F.; Tsang, E; Owusu, G. and Voudouris, C.. 2008. Intelligent Resource Exchanges - Solutions and Pathways in a Workforce Allocation Problem. Journal of Universal Computer Science, 14(14), pp. 2343-2358. ISSN 0948-695X [Article]

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This paper considers the problem of resource allocation in the service industries approached from an agent-based perspective. Agent technologies seem to be well suited to this domain by providing a distributed environment, are network centric, semi-autonomous and collaborative and can communicate with each other to achieve better optimisation with little human intervention. The paper describes the context of this solution, a general power model and several pathways with corresponding example implementations with results and discussion The novelty of the solution resides in the fact that it is a natural and versatile formulation that combines an agent-based model with various artificial intelligence and operations research techniques such as rule-based expressions of allocation strategies and multi-criteria optimisation expressions of allocation objectives

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.3217/jucs-014-14-2343
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Computing
Dates:	Date Event 2008 Published
Item ID:	16211
Date Deposited:	11 Jan 2016 14:51
Last Modified:	11 Jan 2016 14:51
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/16211

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