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Abstract | ||
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In maintenance of (public) infrastructures, such as the national highway network, an asset manager is responsible for high network quality and throughput, while limiting expenses to a minimum. The maintenance activities, however, are often performed by commercial contractors, mainly driven by profit. Using a network-based payment mechanism we align the objectives of both stakeholders. Nonetheless, this greatly increases the complexity of planning maintenance activities, rendering it very difficult for human planners to develop (near-)optimal maintenance plans. We demonstrate a support tool that facilitates multiagent planning for contractors so that they can coordinate their activities with other contractors in the network. This tool is initially intended as a serious game to create awareness and support amongst practitioners concerning this novel network-based coordination. In later stages we foresee great potential in the use of our tool as part of future dynamic contracting procedures. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2013 | 10.5555/2484920.2485247 | AAMAS |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
national highway network,support tool,commercial contractor,multiagent planning,high network quality,network-based payment mechanism,asset manager,optimal maintenance plan,maintenance activity,coordinating maintenance planning,novel network-based coordination,multiagent systems | Computer science,Risk analysis (engineering),Maintenance planning,Multi-agent system,Throughput,Optimal maintenance,Rendering (computer graphics),Payment,Limiting,Distributed computing | Conference |
Citations | PageRank | References |
0 | 0.34 | 1 |
Authors | ||
4 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joris Scharpff | 1 | 15 | 2.67 |
| Matthijs T.J. Spaan | 2 | 863 | 63.84 |
| Leentje Volker | 3 | 8 | 1.18 |
| Mathijs Weerdt | 4 | 411 | 41.00 |