Multi-Agent System for Teaching Service Distribution with Coalition Formation

• Tipo: Artigo em Livro de Atas de Conferência Internacional
• Data: 2013

Autores

moreira, jj (Autor) Outra; reis, lp (Autor) FEUP

Ata de Conferência Internacional

Título: World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (WorldCIST)

Páginas: 599-609

Indexação

ISI Web of Knowledge - 5 Citações

Scopus - 5 Citações

Outras Informações

ID Authenticus: P-008-AD0

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-36981-0_55

Abstract (EN): In University Management, one of the recurring problems that each department has to solve, each year, is the Teaching Service Distribution (TSD) or Teaching Assignment Problem (TAP). The problem of TSD consist to assign teachers to courses classes - lectures, tutorials, practical or laboratory - taking into account these preferences and qualifications for teaching. This is a crucial stage, since it is almost imperative that the TSD is fully defined before the process of schedules generating. However, most institutions of higher education, don't have a specific software tool to support the process of TSD. In this paper we propose a new approach for solving the TSD consisting on the formulation of the problem as a distributed scheduling problem with the formation with coalitions formation. The problem is solved in the context of a multi-agent system where the real agents are modeled by computational agents, with their interests, but may cooperate in alliance groups.

Idioma: Inglês

Tipo (Avaliação Docente): Científica

Nº de páginas: 11