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Agent-based computing has attracted much attention as a promising technique for application domains that are distributed, complex and heterogeneous. Current research on multi-agent systems (MAS) has become mature enough to be applied as a technology for solving problems in an in…

An outline of supply chains and differences in the problem types is given. The motivation for a generic framework is discussed and explored. A conceptual model is presented along with it application to real world situations; and from this a database model is developed. A MIP and…

State-value functions are often critical to the success of decision-making processes. Such value functions are used to estimate the importance of world states or the distance to some desired goal regions. Value functions may be used as search heuristics in decision-theoretic pla…