TY - GEN
T1 - Organization-centered multi-agent systems for dynamic highway maintenance planning
AU - Obonyo, E.
AU - Anumba, C.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Maintaining the infrastructure involves managing structural elements requiring different maintenance strategies. Some elements have to be maintained at regular intervals based on a pre-programmed routine. Other elements are inspected at regular intervals and the specific the requirements for maintenance remain unknown until after the inspection. The latter complicates job scheduling as it disrupts existing programs for routine maintenance. Conventional maintenance planning systems lack dynamism and/ or fail to acknowledge all relations between actors, activities and resources. This paper discusses the potential of addressing these challenges using an organization-centered agent-modeling approach where different scenarios are encapsulated in agent models which captures: 1) global organization strategy and goals, and 2) the objectives and requirements of different stakeholders. Specific challenges of maintenance planning that cannot be fully addressed using conventional tools have been identified. The paper describes implemented of proof-of-concept organization-centered agent models that capture the requirements of maintenance planning.
AB - Maintaining the infrastructure involves managing structural elements requiring different maintenance strategies. Some elements have to be maintained at regular intervals based on a pre-programmed routine. Other elements are inspected at regular intervals and the specific the requirements for maintenance remain unknown until after the inspection. The latter complicates job scheduling as it disrupts existing programs for routine maintenance. Conventional maintenance planning systems lack dynamism and/ or fail to acknowledge all relations between actors, activities and resources. This paper discusses the potential of addressing these challenges using an organization-centered agent-modeling approach where different scenarios are encapsulated in agent models which captures: 1) global organization strategy and goals, and 2) the objectives and requirements of different stakeholders. Specific challenges of maintenance planning that cannot be fully addressed using conventional tools have been identified. The paper describes implemented of proof-of-concept organization-centered agent models that capture the requirements of maintenance planning.
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U2 - 10.1061/9780784412343.0021
DO - 10.1061/9780784412343.0021
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84888384497
SN - 9780784412343
T3 - Congress on Computing in Civil Engineering, Proceedings
SP - 161
EP - 169
BT - Computing in Civil Engineering - Proceedings of the 2012 ASCE International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering
T2 - 2012 ASCE International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering
Y2 - 17 June 2012 through 20 June 2012
ER -