DTIC ADA341323: Distributed Planning and Control for Applications i... | |
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The research addresses combinatorial problems in | |
transportation planning and scheduling. This work | |
addresses fundamental problems in real time planning and | |
crisis decision making. Problems of uncertainty and | |
incomplete information are dealt with by employing a | |
stochastic domain model called a Markov decision process | |
(MDP). Complexity in decision making is dealt with by | |
using iterative techniques and decision theory to | |
allocate computational resources at runtime. MASE is a | |
simulation and development environment for problems | |
involving multiple interacting agents. MASE provides | |
robust and efficient communication and negotiation | |
facilities to support distributed solutions to planning | |
and utilities problems. MASE or its underlying | |
communication subsystem running in a stand alone | |
configuration can be used by distributed components | |
implemented in C, C++, or Common Lisp. Discusses a | |
complementary approach to envelope based methods for | |
solving large MDPs, i.e., MDPs involving a very large | |
number of states. This approach works by decomposing a | |
large MDP into several smaller MDPs which are weakly | |
coupled. A solution is obtained by solving each of the | |
smaller MDPs individually and then combining these local | |
solutions to obtain a global solution. An overview is | |
provided on a proposed new direction of research for | |
embedded planning and scheduling. Described is a general | |
model for embedded planning and control systems. This | |
model describes the rudiments of a software specification | |
framework that is critical to any significant progress on | |
real time systems of any complexity. | |
Date Published: 2018-04-13 06:18:22 | |
Identifier: DTIC_ADA341323 | |
Item Size: 56400709 | |
Language: english | |
Media Type: texts | |
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